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TIL In China, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer is considered a luxury beer and cost $44 USD per bottle.

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xVn5b TIL Patti Lyle Collins who worked at Dead Letter Office (Mail Recovery Center) in the 19th century could decipher miswritten addresses and names; and she even deciphered waterlogged letters
gMaXL TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion.
8awMV TIL that a coyote pack's yipping affects the size of female coyotes' litters. If there aren't enough coyotes yipping in response when yipping occurs, females will produce larger litters to promote reproductive competition. This is why hunting coyotes isn't effective population control.
LQmmp TIL that in 2001 NASA commissioned boy band Natural to write a song about space in an effort to reach a younger audience. The band was to undergo astronaut training in order to perform in space when astronaut Will McCool, who the band teamed up with, died onboard the Columbia space shuttle in 2003.
kJ64E TIL Leonardo Da Vinci stole dead bodies to better understand human anatomy