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TIL Mountain Dew was originally a mixer to Bourbon.

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gM8w7 TIL about the "male idiot theory", where men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour without any apparent payoff.
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oRVRR TIL you can make cloth from milk
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m6Qp TIL Zach Braff beat up a 12 year old for spraying fake paint on his Porsche as a part of a prank on the show Punked. The scene was edited out.