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1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.
YpLOd TIL the reason why the film industry is based in California because filmmakers were trying to get away from Thomas Edison, who owned all film production patents based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Edison was known to have sued any film-based company in the East Coast operating out of his control.
ANYxB TIL each element on the Periodic Table corresponds to one solution of the main equation in the field of quantum mechanics & that the entire field of chemistry emerged from that single equation.
XgYR TIL that the Earth’s oceans absorb 25% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that is released into the atmosphere every year. However, because of the increasing amounts of CO2 into the world’s atmosphere, the world’s oceans are slowly turning acidic.
E1Vkw TIL: The 90's Nickelodeon comedy series, Kenan and Kel, was partly inspired by the popular 1950's sitcom 'The Honeymooners"