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TIL That mountain goats are not actually goats

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KYwyE TIL SonoPrep is a method of painless drug administration through human skin by rendering the skin permeable to fluids via the use of ultrasonic wave. The skin goes back to its normal state within 24 hours.
mPlP TIL the 1964 Hollywood War Spectacular ‘The Battle of the Bulge’ was so historically inaccurate, that President Dwight D Eisenhower came out of retirement and held a press conference just to denounce the film.
AN7Od TIL about the Pentagon Pizza Meter, where any time any big geopolitical event is imminent (a war, invasion, assassination, etc.) pizza orders at pizza shops near the pentagon soar, as the Pentagon workers are loading up on food for a long night of analysis and observation.
bbKj TIL famous playwright Henrik Ibsen, after overhearing his nurse assure a visitor he was doing better, spluttered his last words, “On the contrary!”
dvy7 TIL that Judith Sheindlin (aka Judge Judy) makes just over $900,000 per day of work (She works 52 days a year).