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TIL Lisbon is the oldest city in Western Europe
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TIL your brain is only 2% of your body mass but burns around 20% of your daily calories. The expensive-tissue hypothesis suggests increased complexity of the human brain has increased its energy requirements.
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TIL the Beastie Boys have sold 20 million records in the United States, making them the biggest-selling rap group since Billboard began recording sales in 1991
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Til that some people have a gene that makes cilantro taste like soap and I have that stupid gene
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TIL Guillotine earrings were popular among the rich during France’s reign of terror
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TIL that the first pocket calculator [Curta (Type I) mechanical calculator] was invented by the Jewish inventor Curt Herzstark in Buchenwald concentration camp during WWII. The Nazis planned to make a present of it to Hitler as a gift after the successful end of the war.