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TIL That employees who work at Jack Daniels get a free bottle of Jack Daniels with their paychecks on the first Friday of every month.

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0w8xA TIL: According to the Huichol tradition, when a woman had her first child the husband squatted in the rafters of the house, or in the branches of a tree, directly above her, with ropes attached to his scrotum. As she went into labor pain, the wife pulled vigorously on the ropes.
PY40V TIL that the Caesar salad has nothing to do with Julius Caesar, but instead Cesare Cardini, a Mexican restaurateur. He opened up "Caesar's Restaurante" in Tijuana in 1927, serving his signature salad (and dressing): The Caesar Salad or Caesar's Salad
xKd5 TIL The number 1.61803 is considered the secret mathematical formula for beauty. This “golden ratio” appears in everything from flower petals to human anatomy to spiral galaxies. It even inspired the design of the Greek Parthenon and Apple products.
vP1NB TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.
GY66J TIL: Am-Phu cave in Vietnam is decorated with "hell" themes: sculpted demons "and fanged devils bathed in sinister red light, where hands reach up from the waters below and river monsters threaten to gnash (visitors') souls to bits." It's located under the mountain associated with heaven.