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TIL Astrologers do not agree on when the Age of Aquarius will start or even if it has already started

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GY5WN TIL acre and the prefix agri- (agriculture) share a common ancestor in an ancient Bronze age language, proto-indo-european. The same is true for the words futile and God.
e0mGn TIL that in Virginia, the only place that can legally sell hard alcohol are ABC Stores. They are owned and operated by the state, employing 4000 employees in 370 stores, generating hundreds of millions in revenue for VA.
DQPre TIL about the Abade de Priscos pudding, a portuguese caramel flan, that use fifteen egg yolks and Prosciutto fat together with sweet wine.
aw1NM TIL rapper Ol' Dirty Bastard's verse on the hit song "Ghetto Supastar" was the result of him showing up at the wrong studio, loving the song, and asking to be part of it.
EPaw TIL on the night of Grigori Rasputin’s assassination, he was poisoned with enough cyanide to kill five men, shot four times, bound in a rug, and then tossed in a river. An autopsy showed that he died by drowning.