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TIL Wendy's Fresh Never Frozen beef only applies to the contiguous US, Alaska, and Canada *it's at the bottom of the article

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VBoKQ TIL the phrase "pulling out all the stops" is derived from pipe organs, which have many levers called 'stops' which allow the organist to control the volume and timbre of different pipes. Pulling out all the stops would result in the loudest, most comprehensive sound.
N7Eb1 TIL Archaeologists Have Discovered the World's Oldest Cheese Inside an Ancient Egyptian Tomb Discovered To Be 3,200 year-old
5YR8R TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II had a series of birth defects, most notably a withered left arm. Treatments for his arm include: salt water sprays, cold compression, electric shocks, stretching, and putting the arm into a fresh animal carcass (Queen Victoria thought this was a bad idea).
Ryra TIL that in 2005 Samantha Futerman played the role of a girl separated from her sister in the movie Memoirs of a Geisha. In 2013 Samantha was contacted by her own identical twin sister, Anaïs, who had discovered her on YouTube. Neither knew of each other because they had been separated at birth.
awRlZ TIL that beavers build dams based on the sound of flowing water, even if raised in captivity or in the absence of actual water.