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TIL that many German monks would sustain themselves on nothing but beer and water for the entire 40 days of Lent.

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wLrGM TIL a team of international scholars have been working to recreate recipes from 4000 years ago from tablets. One Mesopotamian dish resembles a chicken pot pie, with layers of dough and chunks of bird smothered by a sort of Babylonian béchamel sauce
XEGyD TIL the Gerber Mark II combat knife originally had a 5 degree offset between the blade and the grip, one of the reasons being to ride in the sheath more comfortably - many were returned because of a 'bent blade'.
RvaQ TIL that “Interstellar” has the most footage ever shot using 15/70mm IMAX cameras for a film, and, due to the film industry’s rapid conversion to digital projection formats, will potentially be the last feature film ever to be projected on 15/70mm IMAX film.
P1BJ TIL an 18 year old freshmen funded his education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny
NXwRE TIL Travis the chimpanzee was given Xanax the day he attacked Charla Nash