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TIL the cheapest place to buy Japanese beer is everywhere, but Japan, due to ridiculous japanese taxation of malt.

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NXXaE TIL that Best Foods mayo and Hellman’s mayo are one and the same. So if their logos and packaging look similar, it’s because when Best Foods bought Hellmans they decided to merge the branding to retain Hellman’s loyal customers. Another example is Dreyer’s and Edy’s ice cream.
x9Qk TIL After 21 years of guitar playing, jazz guitarist Pat Martino had a brain aneurysm that left him without the ability to play guitar. He taught himself how to to play again by listening to his old recordings.
D1D1j TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival released 3 albums in a single year (1969), all reaching Top 10 on the US Billboard chart. That same year they also toured incessantly, played Woodstock, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
xV0A0 TIL in 1970 Nike offered Spencer Haywood either $100,000 or 10 percent of the company in exchange for promoting the company’s shoes. He chose the 100k over the stock that would be worth $8.6 billion today
GAGKN TIL last year a shipment that contained "2,536 pre-filled syringes of vaginal tightening gel" was seized at an airport in Minnesota. Officials estimated the individually wrapped pink packages had a resale value of over $19,000.