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TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented as a mixer for whiskey

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5R5D TIL that “Spider Goats” are a thing. Since farming spiders for silk isn’t ideal, scientists spliced silk spider genes into goats. This new goat can then produces silk out of its utter with its milk.
XEQPr TIL about people who cannot feel fear due to a rare genetic disorder called Urbach-Wieth disease, which damage the amygdalae in the brain. The amygdala serves as a go-between for the parts of the brain that interpret sensory inputs and those that initiate fearful responses.
mx0Op TIL that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings from 1937 to 1949, and that it wasn't published until 1955; in other words, it took 18 years for it to be completed and published.
R7pG1 TIL the first in the movie series for The Lord of the Rings, Shrek, The Fast and the Furious, Harry Potter, and Oceans Eleven all came out in 2001
XwY6 TIL that in North Korea, it’s the year 104