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TIL the “holes” in Swiss cheese are made by the same bacterium responsible for body odor

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DQNp TIL 2/3 of all illiterate adults are female.
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JeLl TIL of Mike Millard, one of the most legendary concert bootleggers, who would pretend to be handicapped in order to sneak in his recording equipment on his wheelchair. His recordings are considered some of the best, even to this day.
ZWGY TIL in 2000, a Wild Turkey whiskey storage facility caught fire, spilling 17,000 barrels of flaming whiskey into the surrounding woods, catching them ablaze. Twenty percent of the whiskey flowed into the Kentucky River, disrupting its oxygen supply, killing 228,000 fish along 66 miles of the river.
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