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TIL Whiskey and Whisky are different distilled spirits

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j6wlM TIL Rajinikanth was not South-Indian; he was Marathi.
0dpKA TILearned about the "Powder of sympathy", a form of sympathetic medicine in 17th century Europe whereby a remedy was applied to the weapon that had caused a wound with the aim of healing the injury it had made.
P1WBO TIL That Comedian Norm Macdonald purposely bombed on stage with such extremely vulgar material during a family comedy night that 80% of the audience walked out. The Governor of Iowa even asked him to leave the state.
4XXeJ TIL the Soviets invaded Japan after they conquered Berlin and took an area bigger than France in half the time it took Germany to (3 weeks vs 6), and that the nukes were only half the reason Japan surrendered, this was the other half.
m5No TIL US Medium (M) shirts are larger than Extra Large (XL) Chinese shirts.