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TIL intelligence and physical attractiveness are as highly correlated as intelligence and education

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78ORr TIL sodium citrate can be used as an emulsifying stabilizer when making cheese and allows the cheese to melt without becoming greasy by stopping the fats from separating. Melted cheese is often used on nachos and has the chemical formula of Na3C6H5O7.
kJ49g TIL that, statistically speaking, it's actually drivers aged 60-69 who have the lowest rates of car crashes. (US)
4xmg TIL: Teddy Roosevelt actually watched Abraham Lincoln’s funeral procession in 1865 when he was 6. In fact, there’s a photograph with a young Roosevelt sitting on a balcony as the casket went by.
9YMjQ TIL that the actors that played Ethel and Fred hated one another so much, that Vivian Vance (Ethel) once stated: “I loathed William Frawley (Fred) and the feeling was mutual. Whenever I received a new script, I raced through it, praying that there wasn’t a scene where we had to be in bed together.”
9wAXQ TIL that when a whale dies in cold deep water, once the body reaches the ocean floor, it becomes a localized ecosystem for decades.