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TIL that water tasting is actually a profession and they are called water sommeliers

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oBJjK TIL of the "3.5% Rule" - Every civil disobedience campaign, in which 3.5% of the population participated, has succeeded
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5Y6a8 TIL Of all the high-ranking members of the Nazi party – many of whom were Catholics – only Joseph Goebbels was excommunicated, and he was not excommunicated for his involvement in killing millions of people (mainly Jews), but because he married a Protestant woman.