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TIL that, due to the presence of quinine, tonic water is fluorescent under ultraviolet light or even the sun (pics inside!)

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P8wZ TIL The principal on “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” is a registered sex offender.
LVPr TIL a man created a fake modern art movement called Disumbrationism that won praise from the same critics who dismissed his wife’s realistic still lifes.
gKM4 TIL during the cleanup of the Cocoanut Grove fire in 1942 (which killed 492 people) firefighters found several dead guests sitting in their seats, with drinks in their hands. They had been overcome so quickly by fire and toxic smoke that they hadn’t had time to move.
e0YML TIL that Christmas celebrations were illegal in New England in parts of the 17th century, because the Puritans found no scriptural justification for celebrating it and associated the celebration with paganism and heavy drinking
OooML TIL in 1996 and 1997, Emily Rosa, 9, tested 21 therapeutic touch practitioners whether their claims to detect "human energy fields" were true. After finding they were right only 44% of the time, she published the results on 1998, becoming the youngest person to have a research paper published.