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TIL that Nazi food scienists made synthetic butter (margarine) out of coal

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x6QPD TIL that the show Fresh Prince of Bel-Air only ever received 1 Emmy, and it was for “Outstanding Lighting direction for a Comedy Series”
4kk5X TIL fewer than 100,000 British people are older than Queen Elizabeth (96). She is the only monarch 85% of her subjects have ever known.
VlpQ TIL The Romans had so much sex they drove a plant they used for birth control into extinction
V8j0 TIL that the sun has still not set on the British Empire.
yQdnJ TIL That at the age of 19, Michael Caine had a near death experience in the Korean War that “formed his character” for the rest of his life. He learned to live every moment as if it where his last and to always look on the bright side of life.