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TIL Mexico is the biggest exporter of beer in the world.

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0dm1L TIL The black tip at the end of a cutter knife is used to snap-off a dull blade tip
yQybv TIL of Boxer Billy Collins, who in 1983 had his undefeated career ended when his opponent, Luis Resto, cheated and removed safety padding from his gloves and tore Collins' Iris in his right eye. Depressed, Collins spiraled into alcoholism and depression leading to his apparent suicide.
GAVjj TIL that the world's first orbital rocket, the R-7, was also the world's first ICBM(Intercontinental Ballistic Missile).
XEeB8 TIL the Elephant Man had to sleep sitting up. One night he tried to sleep lying down, to be 'like other people', and he died from a dislocated neck.
VMkaD TIL In 1993, 16-year-old Keron Thomas posed as a train conductor and drove an A train for three hours and safely delivered passengers to their destinations before he accidentally triggered an emergency brake on a fast curve.