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TIL on 18/04/1930 on the BBC News the news was that there was no news.

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a8vmZ TIL that during WWII, scientists were struggling to make enough penicillin to keep up with demand until they found a moldy cantaloupe in Peoria, IL that was producing penicillin at the highest rate they had yet seen.
e0oLE TIL that a Peruvian volcano eruption in the year 1600 killed 30% of the population in Russia
b96O0 TIL the Romans had a god of poop: Sterquilinus. He was mentioned in a pilot episode of Beavis and Butthead, where his spirit rose from a port-a-potty crushed by a monster truck.
N7wE1 TIL Rasputin's autopsy showed no signs of poisoning, no water in his lungs, and in-tact genitalia. He simply died from three bullet wounds and the popular story of his incredible survivability is likely completely inaccurate.
W79MB TIL the US box office for the James Bond film No Time to Die was $160,891,007.