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TIL Vatican City leads the world in per-capita wine consumption due to its sacramental use

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yQe1w TIL Canada's CBC studied purity of bottled water to find microplastics found in 93% of bottled water tested in global study
Yp8Jx TIL actress Jennifer Connelly inspired Princess Jasmine's appearance in 'Aladdin'. The final appearance of Jasmine consequently inspired the studio to redesign Aladdin based on actor Tom Cruise because Disney felt the original depiction was 'too scrawny' to have believable chemistry with Jasmine.
QJDl6 TIL L Ron Hubbard’s first wife once discovered two love letters the Scientology founder had written, to two different women, in the couple’s outgoing mail. She switched the envelopes and sent them.
dZy9 TIL there are hundreds of 1000-year-old underground tunnel systems in Bavaria, and nobody really knows who built them or what they’re for.
6EWV8 TIL there is a grizzly bear in Banff, Canada that's name is Boss; he has been hit by a train 3 times, eats smaller black bears and elk and has never cause any harm to people and lives in town.