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TIL Termites eat through wood two times faster when listening to rock music

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b69eN TIL Moxie is the oldest bottled soft drink in the U.S. Founded in 1884, 2 years before Coca-Cola, it originally claimed to have “cured drunkards by the thousands". Once widely available, it is now mostly found in New England. In 2005, Moxie was named the State of Maine's official soft drink.

b6ggj TIL Most people with peanut allergies can still consume highly refined peanut oil

R7D5Q TIL of Brandolini's Law which says that bullshit claims require an entire order of magnitude more effort to refute than that which produced them.

eQak TIL that Jeffrey Donovan, best known for his work as Michael Weston on Burn Notice, established a scholarship which gives $10,000 annually to a senior from his high school who plans to major in a fine arts program in college.

e0kyD TIL after suffering a massive heart attack and thought to be on his death bed, an inmate in Nashville confessed to a decade-old murder as way to clear his conscious before he died. Instead, he made a full recovery. He was then indicted for murder, and later convicted