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TIL Gouda is pronounced How-da

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neeZb Well, probably, but how can you tell?
bRma TIL DNA testing showed that one in three fish sold at restaurants and grocery stores is mislabeled as the wrong species.
G0bQ TIL that voles are capable of empathizing with each other. When a vole is mistreated, other voles will comfort it and spend more time grooming it.
VLaG TIL that in Kyrgyzstan, marijuana is traditionally harvested by naked horsemen who ride through forests of wild cannabis for hours. The layer of resin and sweat that accumulates on their skin is then scraped off, pressed, molded into bars, and dried.
eMM5 TIL: In 2005, a group of MIT students wrote a program, SCIgen, to generate fake academic papers, with 16 published by Springer and over 100 by IEEE. These papers were presented over 30 conferences between 2008 and 2013.