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TIL "Hill Valley" from Back to the Future was a wordplay joke

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oBW4L TIL a man once posted himself from London to Australia in a wooden box to avoid the expensive airfare. Broke former Olympic athlete Reg Spiers built the box to travel cheaply as air freight and spent 63 hours in transit. He arrived safely in Perth.
8elYV TIL that chronic consumption of black licorice is associated with an increase in blood pressure which may cause irregular heart rhythm, increased blood pressure, and even death in extreme cases
vM04 TIL Teddy Roosevelt’s charisma had been described as “He wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening.”
mxb8x TIL that 65% of the world drinks goat milk over cow milk.
8avQ8 TIL To produce a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of pure cocaine requires about a ton of fresh coca leaf