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TIL Queen Elizabeth II was certified truck mechanic

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78d5L TIL that during Prohibition in the 1920s, the U.S. government deliberately ordered industrial alcohol to be poisoned to scare people from drinking it. Bootleggers, however, stole and resold this alcohol anyway. It's estimated this federal program killed at least 10,000 American citizens.
pdXG TIL that the name ‘Aspirin’ was originally a trademark belonging to German pharmaceutical company 'Bayer’, but after Germany’s loss in WWI the company was forced to hand over the trademark as a part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
ZMWG TIL In 2008, Doritos beamed a 30 second advertisement towards a planetary system 42 light years away.
7rjlp TIL that approx 50 percent of the flavor compounds in a wine are liberated or created by yeast, a wild yeast mostly. That's why the same grape species in different regions provides different wine flavor.
rNAMM TIL There are insects which use superpropulsion to pee allowing them to eject accelerating pee that’s nearly 40% faster than their stylus ever moves by taking advantage of surface tension.