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TIL Bizarrely, the US has a Prohibition Party whose mascot is the dromedary and whose chairman is named Phil Collins

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VMXN8 TIL in the popcorn industry, two shapes of kernels are commercially important. "Butterfly" kernels are light and fluffy, their many appendages absorbing butter and salt well. "Mushroom" kernels are typically much sturdier then the butterfly ones, and are often used in making confectionery popcorn.
gM0J9 TIL: Niels Bohr didn't actually have a beer pipeline installed in the house gifted to him by Carlsberg. The story was invented by an overly enthusiastic science professor in England with a YouTube show and then spread by journalists who didn't fact check the story for accuracy.
W7RVY TIL whales can drown underwater
GA9Nj TIL that Archibald Gracie, a passenger who survived The Titanic sinking but died of complications within a year, had already endured tragedy in 1903, when his young daughter had been compressed to death in a hotel elevator shaft in Paris.
nWmBW TIL 1976 eletronic music classic album 'Mother Earth's Plantasia' was originally only available to those who bought houseplants from Mother Earth plant store in LA... or given away for free to those who bought Simmons mattress from Sears