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TIL Mountain Dew was invented by Barney and Ally Hartman to be used as a whiskey mix as they couldn't purchase their favorite lemon-lime mixer in Knoxville, TN.

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5ojD TIL that neuroscientists have found that three seconds is the average duration of reciting a verse from a poem. This average duration holds true for poems all over the world and it is thought that it reflects the time it takes for the brain to integrate information.
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