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TIL that with every bottle of Laphroaig Whisky, you are entitled to a lifetime lease on a plot of land in Scotland (1ft squared)

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k5A7 TIL >50% of sloth deaths occur on their once a week trip to the ground to dig a hole and defecate
xL7w TIL that a total of 272 people die in Breaking Bad (SPOILERS)
GYANQ Dumping all our nuclear waste in a volcano does seem like a neat solution for destroying the roughly 29,000 tons of spent uranium fuel rods stockpiled around the world. But there's a critical standard that a volcano would have to meet to properly dispose of the stuff, explains Charlotte Rowe, a volcano geophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. And that standard is heat. The lava would have to not only melt the fuel rods but also strip the uranium of its radioactivity.
kOlA7 TIL there are dozens of pyramids in China. Built across the country at different sites during different times, most are believed to be mausoleums for emperors.
GAnZg TIL Liquid smoke is not just a flavoring, it is actual condensed smoke in liquid form. It still carries some anti-microbial properties of smoke and can be used to preserve things like live stock feed. It also lacks some carcinogenic elements of smoke like PAH (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons).