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TIL: McCormick Pure Orange Extract sold in Walmart is 80% alcohol. No age check at the counter.

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M7JkA TIL that during the War of 1812, Britain occupied and intended to annex the modern American state of Maine, even setting up a government for the “Crown Colony of New Ireland”, which collected £10,000 in tax revenues by war’s end
d89GB TIL although the breakaway basketball rim (a rim that contains a hinge and a spring to prevent the glass backboard from shattering) became a a required equipment upgrade in 1982, Shaquille O'Neal dunked so hard that he still broke the rims off its supports.
x66w TIL being a drama queen is actually a personality disorder, and it affects women four times more than men
Wk56X TIL It’s common for bodies to sit up straight or perform movements during cremation.
xkPo TIL warning signs for our nuclear wastes today need symbols which can be understood by the future generations without the assumption that knowledge can be passed to them, and taking into consideration the possibility of human civilization crumbling away.