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TIL that a shampoo containing real beer was marketed in the 1970s under the brand name Body On Tap.

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MeAbm TIL SMAP The Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite measures soil moisture levels on earth and can predict droughts, monitor floods and predict crop yields for a given year. It can measure all the soil on earth every 2-3 days.
VRbB TIL that Boston Corbett, the man who found and shot John Wilkes Booth, was completely insane from handling mercury as a hatter; this led to him castrating himself with a pair of scissors.
pYZNA TIL dogs actually have a sense of humour and sometimes do things because they know its funny
lovNr TIL in 1960 David Latimer planted a glass bottle (terrarium) with seed and he last watered it in 1972. It was sealed then and is still sustaining itself.
7M4X TIL that blind people have four times more nightmares than sighted people.