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TIL ‘Mountain Dew’ was originally Southern and/or Irish slang for moonshine

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gj47 TIL that the PS2 version of the arcade game “beatmania” was criticised in 2006 for being a “ripoff of [recently released] Guitar Hero”. The beatmania series began in 1997.
Yp8YZ TIL Polished Anus Syndrome (Perianal Dermatitis) affects around 5% of the US population. It is caused by wiping too hard with dry toilet paper.
X06NX TIL about Jerónimo de Ayanz, a 17th century Spanish soldier, painter, astronomer, musician and inventor whom registered the first modern patent for a steam engine, designed a submarine and tested out a diving suit before Felipe III by submerging a man in the Pisuerga river for an hour.
QW7L TIL a mother cow in a US dairy farm made a “Sophie’s Choice” - she hid 1 of her newly born twins and let the farmer took away the 2nd one in the hope of saving at least one of her babies. Both babies were slaughtered.
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.