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TIL that food made with “Real Kraft Cheese” actually contains no real cheese

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78k8p TIL that following Denmark's defeat in the Second Schleswig War, Christian IX offered that all of Denmark become part of the German confederation and thus Denmark remain united with Schleswig and Holstein. This proposal was rejected by Bismarck.
em7n TIL The co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous believed LSD could be used to cure alcoholics and credited the drug with helping his own recovery from often debilitating depression.
VMwX4 TIL that elephants lack a scrotum and their testes are located internally near their kidneys. This fact, along with other embryological and palaeontological evidence, suggests that their ancestors were aquatic.
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VBlpD TIL that "Econophysics" is research field in Economics which models crises the way physicists model transitions of matter from fluid to solid state