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TIL it's illegal to sell whisky in Scotland that is less than 40% alcohol by volume (abv)

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Q6d6 TIL about Tarrare, a slender French man who lived in the 1700s. He had a bizarrely insatiable appetite which could never be satisfied. While under medical observation, he would eat everything he could find like cats, snakes and corpses. He was even suspected of eating a toddler.
ZpxVY TIL in order to escape the fastest tornado on record, you'd have to break the highway speed limit in 34 states
nk9o TIL - There are approx. 10 quintillion (that’s 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 for those who like actual numbers) insects on our planet - or roughly 200 million insects for each human.
kJowB TIL: various English accents have developed what linguists call a "Mary–marry–merry merger", where all three words now sound the same, due to their vowels converging
J1Ag1 TIL Cows have best friends. Studies have shown that cows become stressed when separated from their best friends. This finding highlights the social nature of cows and their ability to form close bonds with one another.