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TIL there are more barrels of Bourbon in Kentucky than there are people.

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Wklv8 TIL about the egg ovens of ancient Egypt- brick incubators created during the fourth century BC that were capable of hatching out thousands of eggs in 2-3 weeks. Two hundred of them are still in use today, the techniques involved passed down orally for more than two thousand years.
M7rya TIL Roger Federer made the 2021-23 Forbes list of highest paid athletes almost solely through sponsorship deals. In that timeframe, he earned only 830k dollars in tennis prize money, but 275 million dollars through sponsorship endorsements.
4XJ5g TIL that in 2018, because of rising prices and bad conditions for open access articles, all German universities collectively didn't renew their contracts with Elsevier, the biggest publisher for scientific papers
78L8P TIL Actor Martin Sheen has been arrested more than 60 times for protesting
lOkV TIL Three Yemeni men sued NASA for invading Mars. They claim that they “inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago”. They based their argument on mythologies of the Himyaritic and Sabaean civilizations that existed several thousand years B.C.