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TIL Liquid smoke is not just a flavoring, it is actual condensed smoke in liquid form. It still carries some anti-microbial properties of smoke and can be used to preserve things like live stock feed. It also lacks some carcinogenic elements of smoke like PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).

by whatilearned August 8, 2022, 7:37 am

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TIL Our Sun can make a total of 80 different elements: helium and then everything from carbon through polonium, but nothing heavier. For that, you need a supernova or a neutron star collision. Of all the types of naturally occurring elements here on Earth, the Sun can make about 90% of them.

by whatilearned July 12, 2022, 1:20 pm

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TIL a study found that the creative elements needed to produce humour are strikingly similar to those characterising the cognitive style of people with psychosis, but that doesn’t imply that comedians are necessarily psychotic

by whatilearned June 26, 2022, 7:34 am

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TIL Salvador Dali designed 500 ashtrays for Air India incorporating elements of a shell, snake, elephant and a swan in its design. In return, Dali demanded a Baby Elephant as a payment.

by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 1:04 am

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TIL 99.9% of the human body is made of just 11 elements

by whatilearned June 18, 2022, 4:15 am

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TIL that Euclid’s “Elements” is considered as the most influential textbook ever written. From its publication until the 20th century, virtually all educated people read it. The only things we know about its author are the city (Alexandria, Egypt) and the times (c. 300 BCE) in which Euclid lived.

by whatilearned June 10, 2022, 11:50 pm

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TIL that Gene Roddenberry’s original script for the first “Star Trek” movie contained a scene in which James T. Kirk has a fistfight with an alien who had assumed the image of Jesus Christ. Certain elements of this script did eventually show up in “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”—but most did not.

by whatilearned June 7, 2022, 3:17 am

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TIL the French progressive rock band Magma wrote lyrics in a fictional language called ‘Kobaïan’. The vocalist called it “a phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically”

by whatilearned May 28, 2022, 4:58 pm

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TIL that through contact with Indonesian people, some Aboriginal peoples in Northern Australia have adapted elements of Islam into their native religion, including Allah himself as a funerary deity

by whatilearned May 22, 2022, 4:52 pm

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TIL that the last known Thylacine, “Benjamin”, died from exposure to the elements because no one at the Zoo it was kept in remembered in time to open the door of its sheltered sleeping quarters.

by whatilearned April 24, 2022, 1:46 pm

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In a world like Avatar The Last Airbender where instead of bending the four “classical” elements, people could bend one of the 118 actual elements, which bending power would be the best?

by QuestionGuy April 16, 2022, 6:41 am

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TIL I learned that E.B. White, who co-wrote the English grammar guide known as Strunk & White, or The Elements of Style, was also the author of Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web

by whatilearned April 12, 2022, 1:42 am

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