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TIL that Budweiser is the best selling beer in only one country: Canada

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5gxQ TIL that Queen Bee stingers are not barbed, and because of this they can sting repeatedly without dying.
YeP7 TIL that the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime
9wY7B TIL about Han Purple, a synthetic pigment used in ancient China, incl on the Terracotta Army. Use stopped in ~220 AD and it was rediscovered in 1990s. It was found that in very low temperatures and high pressure, it "loses" a dimension, acts as a 2D material, and is useful in quantum computing.
p8gPZ TIL in 1965 when Gatorade was invented at the University of Florida, the football coach wouldn't let researchers experiment on the varsity team and only allowed testing on freshman (who couldn't play varsity by NCAA rule). And those players described it as tasting like urine or toilet bowl cleaner.
loMnN TIL that Helium (He) is the only element on the periodic table that was not discovered on Earth. It was found when analyzing the sun’s spectrum, hence its name which comes from the Greek Titan of the sun, Helios.