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TIL the human heart contains taste receptors like the ones on the tongue.

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5ZK8 TIL “Weird Al” Yankovic was valedictorian of his class before earning a bachelors degree in architecture.
ZAXv TIL that there is a family in Turkey with a gene mutation that renders them unable to walk upright and speak properly. Scientists think that their DNA holds the key to explaining how humans evolved from apes 4 million years ago.
b66x9 Til an unidentified sniper attacked an electrical company in California resulting in a loss of 15 million dollars in 2013
8aKXL TIL that for several years Uganda has had the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world. Ugandan's drink of choice was created specifically protest British colonial law.
VMwN0 TIL aerospace engineer and author Judith Love Cohen (worked on the Hubble Space Telescope) had two well known sons. The first son, Neil Siegel, developed GPS receivers in mobile devices and the US Army's first unmanned air vehicle system. The second son is a rather famous actor... named Jack Black.