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TIL there used to be a country called “Republic of Dahomey”

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69be8 TIL Many brands of nacho cheese owe their perpetual meltiness to something called sodium citrate. When you add sodium citrate to cheese, it melts more easily and stays melted without getting oily or clumpy. The chemical formula for sodium citrate is actually Na₃C₆H₅O₇)
64ow TIL that today is the 47th anniversary of Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty - 34 Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded. The ship, a $40-million dollar state-of-the-art signals intelligence platform was destroyed
PYGEV TIL movie theatres charge high prices for popcorn/soda/candy because they only receive a very very small percentage of the actual ticket price. Therefore, they are often forced to make money in other ways to stay afloat.
aM6A TIL the word for “roller coasters” in Russian translates to “American Mountains.”
4XRR TIL that the makers of those anti-piracy, “You wouldn’t steal a car, purse, DVD, etc”, advertisements got sued for actually pirating the music they used for the ad