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TIL that Michigan produces both Sweet and Sour Crude Oil
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TIL: African spiny mice can lose 60% of the skin on their backs and re-grow the lost tissue without scarring! Researchers are looking into the genes responsible for this because these genes work in mammalian systems (growing back fur, muscle, etc) and could work in rehab medicine.
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TIL that for winning the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, Carlsberg brewery gave Niels Bohr a house located next to their brewery, complete with a direct pipeline so that Bohr had free beer on tap whenever he wanted.
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TIL beer bottles are brown because brown glass blocks harmful UV sunlight, preserving the taste. However due to a shortage during WWII most beer companies were forced to use clear glass and higher quality beer makers chose green to distinguish themselves.
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TIL scientists discovered in Brazil a 3,000 year old termite nation as big as the UK. To build it, the termites moved an amount of soil equivalent to building 4,000 Great Pyramids of Giza
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TIL Kiss has more greatest hits compilations (21) than studio albums (20)