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TIL that yoghurt only became popular in the UK in the 1960s.

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6EOEw TIL of Roy Benavidez. Whilst deployed in Vietnam, he responded to a distress call and jumped out of a helicopter with a medical bag, armed with only a knife. After a 6-hour fight with the enemy battalion, he had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds. He saved at least 8 men.
0wZLL TIL the town of Blowout, Texas, got its name when lightning struck a cave and ignited thousands of tons of ammonia-rich bat shit inside it
8aJGV TIL that North Korean reporters and photographers, were required to photograph Kim Il-Sung while standing slightly to his left to hide a large tumor on his neck
9R5D TIL MIT has Invented A Shape shifting Display That You Can Reach Through And Touch.The display is made of atoms, not pixels.
9wZgX TIL that at the center of our local cluster is an unknown gravitational anomaly called the Great Attractor, millions of times more massive than our galaxy, that is inconveniently obscured by the galactic plane of the Milky Way.