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TIL that Spain is the only country in the world that has a monument to the liver - “The silent and unselfish organ.”

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no6d TIL workers at Amazon’s distribution centres can be expected to walk up to 11 miles per shift, picking an order every 33 seconds.
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DZmD TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine
m1RVx TIL that Hollywood actor Paul Kelly was imprisoned in San Quentin for manslaughter, after failing to kill his lover's husband. 30 years later, Kelly played the warden of the prison in the film 'Duffy of San Quentin'.
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