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TIL the Teutonic order still exists and has around 1000 members.

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QNkp6 TIL from Aristotle that "the privy parts of the male camel are directed backwards"
ADQJa TIL in 1999 a study showed that a supermarket sold more French wine when stereotypically French music was played instore. This also worked with German wine/music. Customers later claimed that they were ‘unaware’ of the music’s influence.
R7eY8 TIL the term “the big apple” originally referred to horse racing. The city got its most famous nickname from a local newspaper’s horse racing column in the 1920s. Prior to the city’s adoption of the nickname, the phrase “Big Apple” was used to describe a big money prize at important horse races.
GA5BJ TIL that Bruce Lee’s famous one-inch punch was a demonstration of biomechanics, allowing him to generate significant force from minimal distance.
awbW9 TIL of Judy Buenoano aka 'Black Widow'. She had been convicted of poisoning her husband with arsenic, drowning her son, and attempting to kill her fiancé with a car bomb. In 1998, she was the first woman to be executed in the state of Florida since 1848