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TIL that it is much more healthier to drink from copper bottle than usual glass/plastic bottle as it provides minerals essential for human. Also, in the ancient time people used to drink from such bottles.

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4XRYX TIL about Dewey Beard, the last Native American veteran of the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. In 1892, his family was killed by the US Army at the Wounded Knee Massacre, and he was shot. In 1942, the Department of War confiscated his land to form a firing range. He died in poverty in 1955.
6keW TIL: The average American woman now weighs as much as the average American man in the 1960s
rNBrx TIL scientists made snails remember something that never happened to them
Yp9JP TIL that Mount Saint Elias lies on the border of Alaska and Yukon and it's the second highest mountain in both the USA and Canada because only Denali is higher in the US and only Mount Logan is higher in Canada
x6Xao TIL in the movie Arachnophobia, the largest spider was a bird-eating spider they named Big Bob, after Robert Zemekis. Big Bob was adopted by a crew member named Jamie Hyneman, who went on to host Mythbusters. The little ones were controlled using a hairdryer and lemon pledge spray.