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TIL The Leaning Tower of Pisa is inclined by only 4 degrees.

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oRBR8 TIL Korea has a she-bear foundation myth. A god ordered a tiger and bear to stay in a cave and eat only garlic and mugwort for 100 days. The tiger failed, but the bear persisted and transformed into a woman. The she-bear married the god's son, gave birth to the founder of the oldest Korean kingdom
4V55 TIL a man in Sweden receives disability benefits due to his “addiction to Heavy Metal”.
xVE6B TIL that Antonie Leeuwenhoek improved upon the microscope in 1670 so he could look at fabric but began looking at microorganisms instead becoming the father of microbiology.
v1O6K TIL that the US Food & Drug Administration keeps extending the deadline for the biggest food chains to comply with nearly decade-old federal calorie disclosure laws
kOnKW TIL that Bill W., the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, was a proponent of LSD and believed that regular usage of LSD would be beneficial for many recovering alcoholics.