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TIL The thick white rind on the outside of a wheel of brie cheese is actually mold, Penicillum candidum

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dBBZ TIL of Australian news anchor Karl Stefanovic, who wore the same suit on air every day for a year, to see if people would notice, and nobody did
odG8 TIL Dr. Francis M. Fesmire won the 2006 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering how to cure the hiccups with rectal massage.
mnrE TIL that when Montana imposed speed limits on former No Limit roads, traffic fatalities doubled.
e0vJg TIL that the Boston Bomber, the Unabomber, Terry Nichols and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán all are being held in the same prison