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TIL that expiration dates on bottled water is for the bottle and not for the water in it.

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6EMBZ TIL the Pict people were named by the Romans. They left no writings, so we don't know what they called themselves. The word 'pict' and 'picture' have the same Latin root, meaning, 'painted.' The Romans named them for the blue woad with which they painted themselves.
9Yxkr TIL In-N-Out managers make $160,000 per year
BgWoy TIL: A horse has a maximum output of 15 hp
E4Np TIL a group of Mennonite men sprayed anaesthetic through bedroom windows at night, sedating entire families so they could rape the women.
MeP6b TIL on Kinmen (a small group of islands off the coast of mainland China controlled by Taiwan) knives are made from spent artillery shells. "Kinmen knives" were originally made from Allied artillery during WWII; blacksmiths now use shells fired from mainland China during the 1950s-1970s.