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TIL about Auto-brewery Syndrome, caused when ethanol is produced through endogenous fermentation in the gastrointestinal system. Patients can present many of the signs of alcohol intoxication and have sometimes been accused of DWI without having consumed any alcohol.

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VMg4G TIL two weeks after JFK's Eternal Flame was lit, it was extinguished accidentally by a group of Catholic schoolkids trying to sprinkle holy water.
D1Nxr TIL that the English "much" and Spanish "mucho" are derived from completely unrelated words. The apparent association is a phenomenon known as "false cognates."
9wl7X TIL William Huggins’s first spectroscopic observations, published in 1863, showed that stars are composed of the same elements that occur on the Sun and Earth
eoJ5 TIL that black and green olives are actually the same species of olive, except that they are picked at different times of the year.
b9ppp TIL Black Mormons couldn't become priests until 1978 when their Prophet had an unprecedented revelation that the "time had come" to allow it, after which black people thanked him for his "many hours" begging God to permit it.