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TIL Soft Serve "ice cream" is not Ice Cream

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DQwxJ TIL that moose are deer.
PYraO TIL Warren Buffett's best-performing stock over the past 3 months isn't Apple or Amazon. It's a luxury furniture company.
Y7GpZ TIL about Helios Flight 522. An engineer failed to set the pressurization system back to auto from manual, causing most (except 2 flight attendants) to lose consciousness. The auto-pilot reached Greece and stayed in a holding pattern until they ran out of fuel and crashed, killing all 121 onboard.
LkGWP TIL that not only does Japan have the lowest sexual frequency in the world, it is also the only country where the percentage of people who are not happy with their sex life is higher than that of those who are.
AD5J7 TIL that after the Russian submarine Kursk sank, a distraught mother of a dead sailor was drugged on camera by an agent with a syringe when she demanded answers from the Navy at a hearing.