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TIL the concept of PH was invented to make better Beer.

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PVeZ TIL that the silent horror film “The Unknown” (1927) was missing for many years in the archives of Cinematheque Francaise because they had hundreds of film cans marked “unknown”.
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xVZBB Today I learned the Horror frog or "Wolverine frog" breaks it's own bones to create a bone claw that protrudes from it's toes. The result is similar to the claws of the comic book character, "The Wolverine."
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