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TIL American beer is generally bland because 19th-century brewers were trying to convince Prohibition supporters that beer was a healthier and cleaner drink than whiskey and other liquors

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ADDR7 TIL there is a militant Islamic separatist group in the Philippines that goes by the name MILF
wLAQ1 TIL a Canadian man getting a rectal exam by his doctor at a hospital was observed by people he assumed were medical practitioners/med students. He sued the hospital and observers after learning the observers were two actors who play doctors on TV doing research for the TV series "Saving Hope."
LQg8m TIL about Clive Wearing: In 1985 he developed chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia and can only remember stuff for 30 seconds. He still retains the ability to play good music but forgets what he just played immediately.
M70xa TIL the Legend of Zelda song is by Joe Pleiman and not System of a Down.
b6PxZ TIL ecologist Suzanne Simard wanted to know why the forest got sick every time the foresters killed the birch trees, thought to harm fir trees. She discovered that birch trees actually pass nutrients to fir trees underground via a complex fungal network and were maintaining balance in the ecosystem