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TIL a Florida brewery created edible six-pack rings that feed animals instead of killing them

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4kPxo TIL a man survived a 324 foot fall through San Francisco's Transamerica Pyramid despite landing on a concrete base. A guard heard him screaming ‘whoopee’ during the fall
rMQw TIL in Victorian London it was theorized that diseases like Cholera (which killed tens of thousands) were spread by bad-smelling air, until a scientist named Jon Snow determined water was the culprit - he became known as the father of modern epidemiology.
xVx6w TIL that camera flash should always result in natural/red pupil. And any observation of white eye when looking directly at camera, should be immediately reported to an ophthalmologist to rule out a rare form of eye cancer.
orLW TIL that the word doppelganger, commonly used to refer to someone’s look-alike, is actually a German word meaning “double-walker” referring to paranormal duplicates of a real person.
M7XRV TIL that the Portuguese entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 was one of the two secret signals which alerted the rebel captains and soldiers to begin the Carnation Revolution