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TIL auto brewery syndrome is a condition in which your body turns some food into alcohol.

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6JmX TIL: thorium reactors can use spent uranium rods and make their half-life only 300 years(instead of half a million), is very abundant, and a tiny ball of it would be enough to power my entire life, and only costs 100$.
P9aE TIL every year, Norway gives a giant christmas tree to the people of London in gratitude for Englands help during WW2
mD7M TIL that there were serious plans in 1992 to build a full-scale replica of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek as a resort attraction in Las Vegas
kJY7m TIL after being sent to Baltimore in his youth, Frederick Douglass learned the alphabet from the mistress of the house he moved into. When the mistress' husband put an end to the lessons, Douglass began trading bread to hungry neighborhood children who, in turn, helped him learn how to read & write
xVak1 TIL the computer program that created the THX "Deep Note" (before a movie screening) was coded to be random. The audio you hear was recorded one time and can never be recreated exactly by that computer again.