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TIL, different types of music affected the taste of wine.

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VWb8 TIL: Sabrina Erdely (the lady who wrote the Rolling Stone UVA Rape hoax) wrote a story for Rolling Stone in 2011 about a boy who was raped by 2 priests and a school teacher. All 3 were sent to jail. Turns out the story was also false.
NPLQ TIL One out of every four bridges in America either carries more traffic than originally intended or is in need of repair.
MeZ7B TIL that a plane containing 6,000 lbs of high grade marijuana crashed in Yosemite’s Lower Merced Pass Lake in 1977, which became nicknamed ‘Dope Lake’ by rock climbers. The climbers broke through the ice to excavate bales upon bales of weed that were overlooked by the feds involved in cleanup.
5YEv8 TIL North Korea has its own calendar system. The year is calculated based on the year of birth of its founder (Kim Il-Sung).
Pr5n TIL: The UN Security Council in New York displays a copy of one of the first recorded peace treaties, the Egyptian-Hittite Treaty