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TIL Helter Skelter is a Roller Coaster in Britian
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TIL about Giovanni Battista Bugatti, known as Mastro Titta. An Italian executioner of the Papal States who executed 514 people during his 68 years of activity. Bugattis blood-stained clothes, axes, and guillotines are on display at the Museum of Criminology at Via del Gonfalone in Rome.
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TIL Sir Hans Sloane visited Jamaica, where he came across a local drink; cocoa and water. Disliking it, he decided to add the cocoa to milk. He brought he recipe back to England and is now credited with the invention of chocolate milk.
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TIL The drinking age in the U.S. is 21 because of a federal law requiring states to make that the minimum age to purchase and consume alcohol or lose up to 10% of annual highway funding.
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TIL Elizabeth Taylor suffered from a rare genetic mutation, distichiasis, that resulted in double rows of eyelashes and that usually has horrible complications.
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TIL The uniforms worn by the Alliance on Firefly are leftover costumes from Starship Troopers.