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TIL in Prague beer is cheaper than water

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K80w TIL Jason Voorhees has been unmasked and featured a different looking face in nearly every Friday the 13th film
OGG17 TIL Your tongue has a 'healthy' posture based on how it sits in your mouth at rest (and is linked to the language you first learn to speak)
awZe0 TIL of a Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a WW1 British soldier, spy, intelligence officer, explorer, and naturalist who was a fraud as well as a psychopath and murderer—even killing his own wife when she nearly exposed him for submitting stolen museum birds as his own discoveries.
NX8Ke TIL the reason many naval mines have spikes on them is because each spike contains a glass vial of battery acid. When shattered, the battery acid then energizes a lead-acid battery (which doesn't have acid inside), which then powers the detonator.
8AJL TIL that many incredients in lip balms – phenol, camphor, eucalyptus, menthol, peppermint and spearmint – are skin irritants or drying agents, which provide short term relief but end up making your lips worse in the long run, thus encouraging you to use more lip balm.