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TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.0
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TIL not to engage in conversations with strangers because most of the time they only want to ask you for something!1
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TIL that the "Double Oh" in James Bond's OO7 code name actually is the letter "O", and not, as I had always assumed, the numeral zero.2
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Acetaminophen (Tylenol) induced liver toxicity is more common in people who fast. I fast 19 - 20 hours a day and see a bottle of extra-strength Acetaminophen tablets right here on my desk. D'oh!3 -
TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rookie Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 ppg, or be an all star, or sell $4 mill worth shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 ppg, named all star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.0
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TIL that the phenomenon of "Rickrolling" became so popular that that on 1 April 2008, YouTube pranked its users by making every single featured video on its front page a rickroll.0
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We have telescopes that could detect a bumble-bee's energy signature on the moon.1 -
TIL that Mister Rogers was bullied as a child. "I used to cry to myself when I was alone," he said. "And I would cry through my fingers and make up songs on the piano." As he grew up, he decided to always look past the surface of people to the "essential invisible" within them.1
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TIL that rapper Danny Boy (from House of Pain) loved the book and movie adaptation "The Outsiders" so much that he bought the house from the movie in Tulsa, Oklahoma and turned it into a museum for his personal collection of Outsiders memorabilia.0
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TIL That I'm not actually fully Japanese, my parents are not my parents, my name is Mei Rin, I have a sister named Linhua, and my life is a lie! It's a lot to take in, but wowwwww I'm a bit happy about it!4
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TIL that my boyfriend has been lying to me and has an alcohol and gambling addiction.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. buh bye0 -
thereshegoesagain wrote: »TIL that my boyfriend has been lying to me and has an alcohol and gambling addiction.
Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. buh bye
Oh, that sucks 😕0 -
Celsius conversion to Fahrenheit.
C*9/5 +32=F0 -
TIL that Subway chicken was DNA tested by a Canadian firm and was found to only contain about 50% chicken, with much of the rest being soy filler.0
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TIL that jams are made from actual fruit, jellies are made from fruit juice. Preserves have chunks of fruit, conserves have dried fruit or nuts, and marmalades have peel and pulp.0
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TIL a brain injury sustained during a mugging turned a man who used to think "math is stupid" into a mathematical savant with a form of synaesthesia that lets him see the world in fractals.0
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TIL That all of McDonalds’ delivery trucks in the UK, have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007.2
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In 2001, Pizza Hut became the first restaurant chain to deliver to space2 -
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If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up all the humans on the planet, then you could fit all 7 billion of us inside a single apple. This astonishing discovery that atoms are mainly empty was made in 1909 at Manchester University by the indefatigable Ernest Rutherford2 -
corinasue1143 wrote: »
Yuri Usachov Back in 2001, Pizza Hut became the first restaurant chain to deliver to space, reports BBC. The pizza was sent the International Space Station (ISS) onboard a resupply rocket.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pizza-on-the-international-space-station-2015-24 -
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The entire internet weighs about 50 grams.1 -
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Today I learned my friends politics aren't quite what I thought they were. Ah well, still like him.1
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TIL the dictionary isn't as much an instruction guide to the English language, as it is a record of how people are using it. Words aren't added because they're OK to use, but because a lot of people have been using them.0
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TIL that quokkas throw their babies on the ground as a defense against predators. The predators eat the babies, which distracts them long enough for the mother to escape.0
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TIL that the opening track to Slipknot’s album “Iowa” titled “515” wasn’t just random screaming. Sid Wilson was having an emotional breakdown in the studio because he wasn’t able to make it home to tell his grandfather goodbye before he died.0
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