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TIL wine tasting is completely unsubstantiated by science, and almost no wine critics can consistently rate a wine

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DQ9wv TIL The inventor of Coca-Cola was inspired to make the iconic drink after sampling a French cocaine tonic called Vin Mariani, itself a favorite beverage of several Popes, Thomas Edison, and Ulysses S. Grant
9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”
gM09W TIL the United Nations defines youth as persons between the ages of 15 and 24.
PYQee TIL that after firefighters saved piglets from a barn fire, 6 months later the farmer sent them sausages made from the piglets as a thank you gift
Z8ado TIL that Anne Frank's older sister, Margot also kept a diary, but no trace of it has ever been found.