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TIL That hand warmers work by making iron rust ,and we just Use the excess heat coming from that reaction!

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gr8rD TIL that we don't REALLY know who invented coffee, though we know its origins in and around the Arabian peninsula in the 15th century
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8mE4 TIL a gymnast scored a perfect 10 in the 1976 olympics, the scoreboard couldn’t go that high so a 1.0 was displayed
6m1Z TIL that the same guy who painted “A Friend in Need” (aka “Dogs Playing Poker”) also invented the carnival cutouts (where you stick your face in for a picture).
OoMZL TIL about a dialect quiz that attempts to figure out where you grew up in the United States. It asks 25 multiple choices questions asking things like “what do you call a sweetened carbonated beverage?”. It then will try to triangulate where you are from.