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TIL Stilton blue cheese is known to frequently cause odd, vivid dreams

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L5k9 TIL beaver butt produces such a delicious flavor it is used for vanilla and strawberry natural flavoring.
R5n4Q TIL: Require 4 healthy adult guinea-pigs, 8 sheep, 8 goats for Safety, Safety & Potency Tests related to Anthrax (Pages 338, 339)
9y1G TIL that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” isn’t a line from Shakespeare. It’s a paraphrase from a play by William Congreve, the full line is, “Heavan has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
j46p TIL It wasn’t until 1992 that the Vatican admitted that Galileo was right
J16Kk TIL that during the Victorian period, because of fires, the average lifespan of a theater was under 20 years.