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TIL of La Mancha Negra, a black substance that has oozed from roads in Caracas, Venezuela since 1986 causing multiple car accidents and claiming thousands of lives. After years of study and millions of dollars spent to identify it, there is no definitive explanation.

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e0rgn TIL The Song of India is the first Indian restaurant in South East Asia to have ever won a Michelin Star, its Executive Chef Manjunath Mural was destined to be a doctor since his entire family was in the profession and decided to change that when he found his love for cooking.
KOOQG TIL that a Chinese millionaire author of online fantasy novels paid $10,000 for the most expensive single dram (shot) of Scotch ever sold, only to have the bar manager fly to China to refund him in person when the Scotch was determined to be a fake
kO50e TIL if you hit the windows key and tab on your keyboard it brings up a timeline view of your computer activity.
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loJoV TIL Bill Nye’s full name is William Sanford Nye. His mom was a code breaker during WW2. His dad was a contractor building an airstrip on Wake Island in the middle of the Pacific when he was caught by the Japanese and spent four years as a POW.