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TIL in Curling, custom dictates that after every match, the winners buy losers a round of drinks

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Pl5n Til during the process of becoming a butterfly the entire caterpillar will break down into a liquid.
OoQJa TIL that difficulty in hearing in noisy places is a real medical condition called"cochlear synaptopathy" or "hidden hearing loss" and it is undetected in most hearing tests.
9wNWB TIL Gucci was accused of evading taxes on more than 1 billion euros in revenues between 2011 and 2017. Its owner Kering, which has denied avoiding tax, agreed to pay $1.4B in 2019 to settle the dispute, which was the highest ever agreed settlement by a company with Italian tax authorities.
JYDGv TIL New Mexico is not named after Mexico. It was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico.
5eX8 TIL: The largest Air Force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest? The US Navy.