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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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LQeoV TIL a group of robbers led by a real estate agent and a luxury car salesman managed to break into an airport and steal $50 million worth of diamonds as they were being loaded into a plane.
eBwk TIL that being exposed to even 0.01 mg/m3 of Tellurium will make you smell heavily of garlic for months, slowing research on it considerably
R7VL8 TIL about the 1986 movie Troll, which is about a young wizard named Harry Potter Jr, and features an old woman who gives Harry advice and an evil villain who hides his essence in someone close to Harry – Over a decade before JK Rowling released her first Harry Potter book
1amR4 TIL, that the Queen banned a documentary about the British Royal Family in 1969 which aired only one time in British Television and was locked away in BBC's Vault. But the banned documentary has now reappeared to the public.
9Yb8G TIL of the American singer/sonwriter Rodriguez who was massively famous in South-Africa and there were wild stories about how he died on stage. The doc "Searching for Sugar Man" tells this awesome story.