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TIL Most “small-batch” whiskey distillers buy their whiskey from the same factory in Indiana

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NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
agPL TIL birds, fish, and frogs naturally recover from noise-induced hearing loss as their auditory organs automatically regenerate. Mammals lost this ability 300 million years ago.
8kbP TIL that there was a real white whale who attacked whalers who was the inspiration for “Moby Dick”.
dojZ TIL the Kawaya Kami is a modern Shinto deity, who reigns over toilets. He was thought to be very beautiful, and as such his toilets must be kept clean and nicely decorated. If you don’t keep your toilet clean, he may cause infants to be born ugly and unhappy.
eMkL TIL that the UK is the only country to have successfully developed a satellite launch capability and then abandon it.