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TIL A research study found that Guinness tastes better in Ireland and that “This difference remained statistically significant after adjusting for researcher, pub ambience, [and] Guinness appearance.”

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8bPX TIL that lobsters are functionally immortal. They display no signs of aging, no loss of appetite, no change in metabolism, no loss of reproductive drive or ability, and no decline in strength or health. It seems they only die from external causes.
OlX6 TIL the winner of the 2001 Fox reality show “Murder in Small Town X” was a firefighter from NYC. He was killed a week after the season finale on 9/11 after winning $250,000.00 and a new jeep.
neRlG TIL About the underground city of Derinkuyu, located in Turkey. Large enough to hold 20 000 people and containing chapels, storage rooms and stables it was re-discovered accidentally when a Turkish man was trying to expand his home and knocked down a wall leading into the tunnel complex.
VMaAD TIL that while Elizabeth Fraser was recording “Teardrop” with Massive Attack, she found out that her boyfriend Jeff Buckley drowned. She now considers this song to be “kind of about him.”
mxXo TIL that one Japanese company, ykk or Waikeikei Gurūpu, manufactures 90% of all zippers in the world.