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TIL: Scientists found that it actually takes about 2,500 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.

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QN96e TIL that male dolphins are sexually attracted to female humans... this is so disturbing lol
gMNaL TIL that in 2012, 10 year old Clara Lazen accidentally invented a new type of molecule called Tetranitratoxycarbon, they found out when she assembled carbon, oxygen and nitrogen atoms in a random way on a model. The teacher passed it on to a friend, and it was new. In the paper, she was credited.
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