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TIL Dogfish Head makes beer recipes based upon the chemical analysis of residue found on pottery and drinking vessels from various archaeological sites.

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5rQp TIL that American life expectancy is now 35th best among the nations of the world, below Slovenia, Costa Rica & Cyprus
ZpZva TIL of Operation Matador, a British plan to make a preemptive attack on the Japanese Empire in WWII. It was halted on December 6, 1941 - the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor the following morning.
78M9Z TIL that the "deadly" Sydney Funnel-Web Spiders have failed to kill a single person since an antivenom was developed in 1981.
gMEXW TIL that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries telephone companies used existing barbed wire fences to transmit electrical phone signals to rural areas to save money due to the price of phone lines.
0lkR TIL that there designs for a rocket even larger than the Saturn V that could boost 1.2 million pounds into orbit. It was so large it had to be launched partially submerged and was call the Sea Dragon.