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TIL about 25% of all animal species are beetles.
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TIL that in the 19th Century, Rudolf Lindt, of the famous Lindt chocolate family, accidentally invented the crucial step of "conching" chocolate – rolling the warm cocoa mass to make it smooth and reduce its acidity – by leaving a cocoa mass mixer running overnight.
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TIL: Warfarin was initially used as a rat poison, until a failed suicide attempt demonstrated its safety in humans.
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TIL that Snoop Dogg. broke the Guinness World Record for biggest gin and juice by stirring up a drink that contained 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy and 38 jugs of orange juice.
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TIL the marriage of Oscar-winning actress Gloria Grahame (It's A Wonderful Life) to director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without A Cause) ended in 1950 when he walked in on her in bed with his 13-year-old son -- Her stepson. She secretly married the boy ten years later.
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TIL That Nestle’s CEO thinks the view that water is a basic human right is ‘extreme’