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TIL when Consumer Reports tested the Olympic WaterGuard wood stain, the product was so bad that it "didn’t take to the wood at all.".

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9YEKB TIL Saint Augustine of Hippo almost married a 10 year old heiress when he was 31. He had to wait 2 more years for the legal marriage age of 12, but became a Catholic Priest before the marriage could happen.
BOOK TIL that cheetahs were nearly exhausted by the last ice-age, and all modern cheetahs are descended from a small portion of the surviving cats that interbred to maintain their species. Due to this, cheetahs are almost genetic clones of one another.
j4Ej TIL a German footballer Mesut Ozil donated his €300,000 World Cup victory bonus to pay for surgery of 23 children in Brazil
dD988 TIL players on the official forum for the game War Thunder have regularly leaked classified or restricted documents to win arguments over the real-world capabilities of weapons featured in the game
6WDX TIL Shrimp are referred to as an abomination four times more than homosexuality in the bible