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TIL Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a Calorie

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78wrO TIL that U.S presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on the same day — July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the adopting of the Declaration of Independence.
JYPw1 TIL that Dutch people, currently the tallest population in the world, actually used to be the shortest population in Europe just 150-200 years ago
rNQY0 TIL There is a natural nuclear fission reactor that has been operating for about 2 billion years in Oklo
GAy5N TIL the Big Bang got its name from a Cambridge astronomer who thought the theory was bullshit. That man also discovered that elements were created inside star cores by nuclear fusion and believed that life originates from outside Earth .
nbZ7 TIL that in a blind test taste Pepsi activated more dopamine receptors than Coca-Cola. However once participants were told they were drinking Coke, it then became the greater dopamine producing beverage over Pepsi – even when lied to. Most likely it was Coke’s marketing that was responsible.