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TIL 40-year-long Study: Extreme Hot or Cold Temperatures Linked to Heart Disease

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69VrZ TIL that the name Arby's doesn't stand for the sound alike letters R-B meaning Roast Beef but rather for the initials of the Raffel Brothers, Leroy and Forrest, who founded the restaurant in 1964
kOVY4 TIL Raw Manuka honey kills every bacteria scientists throw at it, including antibiotics-resistant superbugs
jBlX TIL Roughly 1/6 of the $6.9 million budget for the movie Dazed and Confused was used just to acquire the rights to many of the 70s music used in the film.
N7vvb You can see the coronavirus from space, well kind of.
9bKX TIL Carl Sagan thought he was able to explain things because for the most part, understanding difficult concepts didn’t come easy to him. “The very brilliant ones figure it out so fast they never see the mechanics of understanding.”