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TIL the expiration date on bottled water is for the bottle, not the water.

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8eBAG TIL that the F-22 Raptor took so long to develop, that the CPUs for its in flight computer had become obsolete by three generations by the time the first production jet flew in 1997, resulting in even further delays as a new flight computer had to be designed based on the PowerPC processor.
KOVLQ TIL about “Craniofacial Duplication”, a rare condition in which a person is born with two sets of lips and eyes, as well as 2 noses!
78Y4L TIL in 2010 a fan of the University of Alabama football team fatally poisoned several 130 year old oak trees on rival Auburn's campus. Six years later an LSU fan set one of the replacement trees on fire.
pw8b TIL that corpse roads run all through England. These are old roads that long ago were used only for transporting corpses; they have strange legends surrounding them.
ga47 TIL there is a lamp, powered solely by gravity; that’s only $5