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TIL A pair of soft drinks were sold in Singapore called Anything and Whatever. While each offered six flavors, the cans were identical, so you didn’t know what flavor you were going to get.

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v19VK TIL Many common dog behaviors derive from the wolf predatory sequence(search, stalk, chase, grab, kill, dissect, eat). For example, ripping apart a stuffed animal is dissecting, a herding dogs desire to herd is a fragment of the stalk phase & hounds excel in the search phase
yVoke TIL of Sardinian bitter honey, obtained in October - December from flowers of the strawberry tree (a Mediterranean tree named corbezzolo in Italian). It is used in traditional desserts or paired with cheese, and it's often added to coffee to enhance the bitter aromas
lZ0G TIL The pineapple “fruit” is not really a fruit but a mass of individual berries fused to the central stalk.
0VeN TIL that Quakers call the months of the year and days of the week by number only, in order to avoid using names of pagan deities.
Dy9p TIL that after the HMS Sheffield was hit by and Argentine Exocet missile during the Falklands War, her crew sang “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from Monty Python’s Life of Brian as they awaited rescue and watched their ship burn uncontrollably.