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TIL that only 10% of wine 'experts' can consistently rate the wine from the same bottle in the same way, and they aren't consistent the next year. After analysing results across wine competitions in california, medals were found to be distributed at random.

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Kx0E TIL that over a span of six years, pharmaceutical companies have sent 400 pain pills to West Virginia for every person living in West Virginia.
OGJEe TIL There is a Chinese poem entitled "Shī-shì shí shī shǐ", with 92 words - all of which are "shi". The poem becomes comprehensible because Chinese is a tonal language - where the same word can be pronounced with many different tones. Supposedly, the poem is more sensible in Cantonese than Mandarin
69LgQ TIL That BOTH The Failed Videogame "CONCORD" AND The Salvage Costs For The COSTA CONCORDIA cost $400 Million...
OGxba TIL about Anatoly Moskvin, a Russian historian who was discovered to have dug up the bodies of 26 girls and mummified them in his home, dressing them up as dolls and keeping them for years without anyone knowing.
EJlx TIL that the homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum is so diluted that there would need to be 10 to the power of 320 more universes to simply have one molecule of the active substance (duck liver) in the final substance.