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TIL that the happiest children in the world live in the Netherlands

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69EPQ TIL that Coca-Cola was originally made with Coca leaves and Kola nuts, which are real things. The soft drink likely now contains neither.
wL7x8 Til, Heracleitus, sick with Dropsy, tried to cure it by covering himself in cow dung, thinking that it would draw the bad humours out. One version claims that the manure was too wet and he drowned in it, another that it was too dry and he dried out, third version says dogs ate him whole.
Xm7R TIL that when a bee mates with a queen its ejaculation is so powerful that it is audible by the human ear.
5MpQ TIL that Pope Benedict IX was the only Pope in the history to have served 3 Papal terms.. And the only Pope to have sold Papacy… and the First Pope said to have been primarily homosexual who held orgies in the Lateran palace
Br0kb TIL the second ingredient of Campbell’s Tomato Soup is high fructose corn syrup. So much for nostalgia, but welcome to my drain, sugar-soup!