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31 Bits of Trivia to Shovel Into Your Skull Like Coal in an Old Steam Locomotive

February 14, 2024

Our mouths have a lot to do to consume food, so it’s pretty neat that our brains consume facts without all that chewing or swallowing. Our brains do miss out on a fact’s tastiness though. Clint Eastwood once repealed a town’s ice cream ban. There… Could you taste the ice cream? No? We’ll work on that.

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