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TIL Mountain Dew was made to be mixed with whiskey

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l7Kb7 TIL Abraham Lincoln had strabismus, aka a “lazy eye”. His left eye was said to roll upwards when he was tired or exited.
LBxm TIL In the original print of The Hobbit, Gollum offered Bilbo the One Ring as a reward to winning the riddle game. J.R.R. Tolkien revised the scene in later editions of The Hobbit to fit the concept of the ruling ring while writing Lord Of The Rings.
wLoR7 TIL that plans for the death and funeral of Queen Elizabeth II have been extensively prepared by most British government and media organizations since the 1960s. The codename is Operation London Bridge.
5VrvD TIL James Beck was a prominent art historian who criticized the restoration of both the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo and the Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci. He believed that restoring an artwork risked altering it and instead advocated for conservation of artworks in their present state.
XoaQ TIL that after being wronged by the government in the late 1990s, a citizen decided to heavily modify a bulldozer, called it the “Killdozer”, and went on a rampage.