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TIL that pumpernickel (the German whole grain sourdough bread) literally means "farting devil" or "devil's farts."

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epmb4 TIL - Gordon Ramsey was the star in a documentary on how cocaine is made
kOVrm TIL in a 2005 NASA study, scientists successfully revived bacteria that had been in a frozen pond in Alaska for 32,000 years. The microbes had been frozen since when woolly mammoths still roamed the Earth. Once the ice melted, they began swimming around, unaffected, and quickly became infectious.
lokma TIL whale oil was used in GM transmissions until the early 70’s.
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w8ME TIL On July 1, at the Battle of the Somme, a charge of 60,000 lbs. of explosives was detonated creating a crater that was 300 feet across and 90 feet deep. The explosion, which occurred in France, could be heard as far away as London and was the loudest man made sound in history at the time.