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TIL it is chemically impossible to make grape ice cream.

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pY4OG TIL of Sidney Korshak, a lawyer who was the Chicago Mafia’s main man in Los Angeles. Korshak went to his death, without so much as a criminal indictment against him, let alone a conviction.
O4PY TIL that the actor who played Marvin in Pulp Fiction (the guy Vincent accidentally shoots in the car) is the voice of Hermes the Jamaican Bureaucrat on Futurama.
9y4X TIL China has been producing fake chicken eggs since the 90s. The production cost is less than half of a real egg. They are made from a mixture of resin, starch, coagulant and pigments, while algae gives them proper viscosity. The shell is made from paraffin wax, gypsum powder, and calcium carbonate
ep585 TIL that some people possess an extraordinary ability to recall an abnormally large number of their life experiences in vivid detail. This condition is called Hyperthymesia (also known as HSAM)
r7wx TIL in 1991 mutinous units of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard attempted to launch missile attacks against coalition forces in Saudi Arabia to trigger an armed conflict between Iran and the United States. Regular Iranian army forces rushed to the missile battery to prevent the missiles’ firing.