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TIL Schlitz used to shine UV light on their beer and market it as a health food: Sunshine Vitamin D Beer

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4nD6 TIL Charles Cros invented both a method of colour photography and the phonograph. While Cros submitted his ideas to the French Academy of Sciences first, he never managed to patent them first.
QNWaE TIL although Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” has nothing to do with Christmas or winter, it has gradually been added to the Christmas Music repertoire because Britain’s Got Talent singer Susan Boyle decided to include it on her Christmas album in 2010
78LDP TIL King Henry VIII of England had servants called "Grooms of Stool", who wiped him clean after he visited the toilet.
6EYgQ TIL Caitlyn Jenner is against gay marriage and describes herself as a "traditionalist"
N7pL8 TIL Princess Diana was a descendant of Charles II via two of his illegitimate children; since Charles II never had any legitimate children, Prince William will, if crowned, be the first descendant of Charles II to be King