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TIL that there are bottles of Pabst Blue Ribbon that sell in China for $44 a bottle

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D15Og TIL that there is a collection of hundreds of preserved diseased brains along with photographs of patients in the sub-basement of Yale Medical School that is free and open to the public. The collection was started by the first neurosurgeon to successfully remove a brain tumor - Dr. Harvey Cushing.
EwlP TIL former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher once called poverty “a personality defect”
DQBBY TIL that the Northern Mockingbird can mimic the calls of over 25 other bird species
vwnx TIL Dr. Dre beat a woman for calling him a faggot on a record.
69PZY TIL in the mid-1950s, Hiller aircraft constructed flying platforms for an army-navy program. The pilot simply leaned in the desired direction in the platform would follow.