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ZPrB TIL a Scottish University discovered a drug which combats leukaemia… in the nation’s favourite drink - Irn Bru.
R5dOl TIL television broadcasters sped up tapes of I Love Lucy reruns in the 1970s while using a special hardware effects unit to alter the actors' voices to their normal pitch. This effectively made more space (around 3 minutes) to run advertisements, generating more revenue for the stations.
J9rl TIL that the ancient Greek geographer Pytheas from Massalia (modern Marseille, France) sailed to Great Britain and possibly Iceland as well, and was the first scientific thinker to connect the phases of the moon with the tides
dD4Vd TIL that Marmite does not have an expiration date. The only thing that changes is that the vitamins decrease in potency.
epKWL TIL fracking likely caused two of the largest earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains