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TIL Steven Seagal is a Sommelier

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vP1Lr TIL that The Beatles re-recorded two of their hit singles in German due to wanting to sell more in Germany
OXbL TIL Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age, and that pre-industrial human modifications of the climate through agriculture, fires and deforestation might have just barely staved it off.
R1Vl TIL that in 2009 after 10 years of legal battle, ford motor company was ordered to pay $55 million to a small time Illinois inventor for willfully infringing on his patents.
grx8y TIL That the in the Celtic myth, "The Fosterage of the House of the Two Pails", Eithne (the Sidhe foster-daughter of the Tuatha De Danann, Aengus) converted to Christianity when meeting St. Patrick:
njPo TIL that monks can raise the temperature of their skin through meditation so much that in 50 Fahrenheit (10 Celsius) weather, wrapped in wet towels, their skin starts steaming and the towels are dried.