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TIL that gunpowder was accidentally discovered when Chinese alchemists tried to develop a “fountain of youth” potion.

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 6:21 am

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TIL, the CIA hunted down top Nazi scientists after WWII, in hopes of convincing them to help develop weapons and the space program that took the US to the moon. These Nazis and their families received full American Citizenship and their war crimes were well known to the officers that found them

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 11:30 pm

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TIL Dry Aging is the process by which large cuts of beef are aged for anywhere from several weeks to several months before being trimmed and cut into steaks. It’s a process that not only helps the steak develop flavour, but also makes it far more tender than it would be completely fresh.

by whatilearned September 1, 2022, 10:02 am

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TIL that Todd Field, director of the Oscar-nominated movies “In the Bedroom” and “Little Children”, also helped develop the recipe for the bubble gum known as Big League Chew as a teenager batboy for the Portland Mavericks in the late ‘70s.

by whatilearned August 27, 2022, 12:02 pm

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Why didn’t Spain and Portugal develop more flexible banks in the 1700s?

by HistoryBuff August 20, 2022, 10:11 pm

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TIL That Henry VIII’s Foot Combat Armour was studied to help develop space suits.

by whatilearned August 16, 2022, 4:58 am

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TIL Young babies don’t develop the reflex to breathe through their mouths until they are 3 or 4 months old.

by whatilearned July 25, 2022, 7:28 pm

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TIL that no babies are born with freckles because they haven’t been in the sun long enough for specks to develop.

by whatilearned July 21, 2022, 10:44 pm

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TIL that the head of the Buffalo ASPCA helped develop the electric chair and experimented with it on hundreds of stray dogs.

by whatilearned July 3, 2022, 5:26 pm

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TIL about a species of caecilian called the Boulengerula taitanus. Mothers of this species develop an outer layer of skin that’s rich in nutrients after laying their eggs. Once hatched, their offspring use specialised teeth to peel and eat this outer layer of their mother’s modified skin.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 11:43 am

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TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the “Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands”, a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 2:32 am

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TIL of a rare condition where a female can develop two uteruses, two cervixes and two vaginas. A condition known as Uterine Didelphys.

by whatilearned June 17, 2022, 6:55 pm

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