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TIL Andy Samberg won an Emmy for the song “Dick in a Box”

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ANLva TIL that in 1947 a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison mutated Penicillium Roqueforti (blue cheese mold), accidentally creating a colorless "blue" cheese. The cheese made from this mutated mold was dubbed Nuworld cheese, and is still being produced for sale in small quantities.
x66D7 TIL That the phrase "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" does not refer to what we refer to as torpedoes but, instead, to a seaborne minefield at the Battle of Mobile Bay.
16rwO TIL the Carrington Event was the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, creating an Aurora so bright people in northern America could read a newspaper by the aurora's light, and damaging telecommunications equipment around the world
MeJVm TIL that the Norway national football team is the only team in the world who has played Brazil and never lost, winning two matches and drawing on two other occasions.
9YnGD TIL that there are approximately 15, 000 tonnes of gold in the ocean.