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TIL the worlds oldest brewery still in operation will soon turn 1000 years old

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wLa7J TIL that, in its 1975 annual opinion poll, Playboy Magazine readers voted Karen Carpenter as Best Rock Drummer of the year, outvoting John Bonham of Led Zeppelin.
pYn9Z TIL of the Gold Sock Killer, a unidentified Floridian serial killer active only in 1973 who got his moniker for strangling his victims to death with socks; however, a gold-colored sock was only used in two murders.
jNbkj TIL of Vozrozhdeniya Island, a piece of land that was once in the Aral Sea and home to an abandoned Soviet bioweapons research facility
R5p19 TIL the Philippines consists of 7,641 islands
KG0E TIL that businesses like McDonald’s and Starbucks buy chairs with low ‘butt ratings’ that have a measured time before they become too uncomfortable for patrons to stay.