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TIL that the radioactive decay of Cobalt-60 can be used to define left and right

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WkkXL TIL that Marry, Mary, Merry, Bury, Larry, Leery, Fairy, and Ferry aren't all pronounced the same in other english accents
b6p8E TIL that Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the first album to print the song lyrics on the back of the sleeve.
d4b8 TIL There is a gas cloud in space with enough alcohol in it to produce over 400 trillion pints of beer.
kO6b1 TIL that there is patch of snow in Scotland that has disappeared only a total of seven times in the last 300 years. Nicknamed the Sphinx it is said to be the most permanent and closely studied patch of snow in the British Isles.
W7QgL TIL that in 2013 the number of U.S. children named “Cheese” skyrocketed by 450 percent.