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

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4MN5 TIL that you can tell identical twin babies apart from their navels, since navel is a scar and thus they’re different.
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GAWX7 TIL about D-VHS or Digital VHS, a 50 GB VHS cassette tape capable of recording high-definition video. Released in 1998 in an attempt to save the VHS format, D-VHS was more bulky and expensive than DVDs and hard disks and failed to make headway into the video market.
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