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TIL Nigeria drinks more Guinness than Ireland

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mWVy TIL German Chocolate Cake is not German, its from Texas, named after the “German Chocolate” used in the cake, which is also not German.
XEQ9D TIL in spite of rumours of their enemity, Salieri and Mozart composed together a four-minute piece of music, that was considered lost until a copy was found in 2015
nPDW TIL that according to the UN, babies born mid-flight are citizens of the country where the plane is registered.
neM1d TIL NFL players pee "all over the sideline in every game, into cups, on the ground, in towels, behind the bench, in their pants, everywhere"
xvQg TIL in 1976 a film crew went to the haunted house in a California amusement park to shoot footage for a popular tv show. They discovered a hanging body that they thought was a mannequin… turns out it was a real person who had been dead and circulating in various carnivals for over sixty years