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TIL Australia has the longest continually producing shiraz vines in the world.

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4XWWR TIL-In the 1960s-1970s a study was done to compare the development of twins and triplets separated at birth. The study is often called unethical because the researchers didn't obtain the consent of anybody involved with the children. The records from the study are sealed at yale until 2065.
VMOKp TIL the father of billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer, Roy Henry Steyer, was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
ADMpl TIL Eartha Kitt - known as the original singer of "Santa Baby" and the voice of Izma in The Emperor's New Groove - was blacklisted by the CIA after telling Lady Bird Johnson, "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. No wonder the kids rebel and take pot."
VMr0m TIL about NASA TALs (Transoceanic Abort Landing sites) that were specially built all over the world, including in Gambia, Senegal and Morocco, that would be used in the event of an aborted Shuttle Launch
9w4ZB TIL that Chia pets are so named because they are made with sprouted chia seeds