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TIL low voices make products seem bigger, which explains Ving Rhames’ voice in those Arby’s commercials

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xVQk7 TIL of the Bonnacon, a mythological bull that would shoot caustic feces at hunters
N7Wb6 TIL that in 2019, Pope Francis received a bottle of Oban malt whiskey while visiting Scottish priests, and declared it to be 'the real holy water'. The BBC captured the footage for a documentary, which was censored by the Vatican.
YpvjP TIL The Y2K bug was real but the predictions of a world-shaking disaster were utter nonsense and caused by hucksters looking to profit from it.
jmGn TIL the marsh mallow was a delicacy in ancient Rome and Egypt. By the 1800s, confectioners were making small batches of candy with mallow, sugar, and egg whites. Mass production was made possible by using gelatin and corn starch instead.
BpmL TIL in 1958 while widening a road the RAF discovered that a fifteen year-old display mockup of the biggest bomb ever used in WWII was not merely a mockup but was actually a live bomb.