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TIL a Construction Company is older than Islam

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epmb TIL Benjamin Franklin gave up vegetarianism because when he sliced open a fish, he saw smaller fish inside, reasoning that if animals eat other animals, humans should be able to eat other animals.
M7XQ8 TIL of the Window Tax, where England homes would be taxes according to the number of windows they had, leading to windows getting boarded up to avoid the excess tax.
oBxE TIL the #203 ranked male Tennis player beat Serena and Venus Williams after he played a round of golf and had a few beers.
KOgn4 TIL in 1854 Commodore Perry gifted 110 gallons of American Whiskey to the Japanese emperor. That gift has since evolved into a $6 billion industry, with Japan's Suntory distillery winning 2015's World Whisky of the Year. Today, Suntory owns Jim Beam.
E1nP TIL brain-related criteria to identify the death of a patient (i.e. “brain death” = death) is not based on valid scientific data