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TIL beer is the world’s 3rd most popular drink, after water and tea.

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OPg7 TIL that in 1988 Timothy C. May coined the term ‘The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse’, referring to terrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers and money launderers, which are brought up in order to justify the regulation of the internet.
nWrYW Till in 1936 a group of Imperial Japanese Army officers attempted to coup d'état Japan
0E7v TIL minutes before the Halifax Explosion, (one of the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosions) a dispatcher named Vince Coleman returned to his station to send a warning telegram, saving 300 lives at the cost of his own.
P1g7E TIL that the skeletor from he-man was inspired by a real life corpse that scared his creator as a child
wr58 TIL the X-Files episode ‘Home’ which was about a murderous inbred family was based on a story from Charlie Chaplin’s autobiography where a family introduced him to their quadruple amputee son by pulling him out from under a bed after which he “flopp[ed] around” while they sang and danced.