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TIL ice cream contains all 3 states of matter - gas, solid and liquid (air bubbles, ice crystals, and milk) - and is considered both an oil-in-water emulsion and a foam. Much more complex than I thought!

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e9Xn TIL the Pontiac Aztec, considered a commercial failure during its production life, has seen a resurgence in popularity and public interest in the late 2000s and early 2010s thanks to its association with Breaking Bad.
8nVX TIL When Stephen Hawking’s first wife, Jane, saw the movie script for The Theory of Everything, she deleted all the F-words, saying “Scientists in the 1960s and 70s didn’t use the F-word and I’m pretty sure they don’t now either.”
14y4 TIL in a study involving medical students at UVA half of them believed half racist myths like black people feeling less pain and aging slower
a5WN TIL that during one of the Magic School Bus episodes they literally had fish ejaculate on the entire cast of kids.
b6Dp7 TIL "may you live in interesting times" is not a Chinese curse