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TIL Louis Pasteur, the scientist who discovered pasteurization, originally did not experiment with milk, but beer.

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VMmgp TIL, Lego HQ in Billund, Denmark has an underground vault containing every Lego set ever made.
4k65w TIL: in 2002 amateur astronomer Bill Yeung accidentally rediscovered the 3rd stage of Apollo 12s Rocket, after NASA misscalculated its discarding burn, causing it to enter a 40 year cycle switching between sun and earth orbits.
awnKb TIL outtakes from curb your enthusiasm once saved a guy from death row, the accused could not prove they were at a baseball game at the time of a murder, until outtakes of an episode of curb showed that in fact the man was there.
lDjB TIL of Terry Grosz, a Fish and Game warden, who swam a mile down a river in the dark in order to be reeled in by illegal fishers. After writing citations and confiscating their fishing rods, he swam back into the river.
e0Gng TIL that the biggest ship in the ancient world the Tessarakonteres had 4,000 oarsmen. Most believe that the boat was so big that it wasn’t really functional.