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TIL that Voss water is just water from the municipal water supply in Iveland, Norway

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Zp8rp TIL that the probable voice of the Wilhelm scream was Shelby Fredrick "Sheb" Wooley, the singer of the famous novelty song "The Purple People Eater".
7Elr TIL A man robbed a bank by poisoning the staff with cyanide, he disguised himself as a public health offical sent to do dysentery innoculations. 10 people died.
yZeV TIL that there is a law in São Paulo that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters.
wo8Q1 TIL a study by researchers at Connecticut College in 2013 discovered that Oreos activate the same “pleasure center” in the brains of lab rats that were activated by cocaine and morphine. The researchers also found that the rats liked to eat the crème filling first
yVJEV TIL Lockheeds “Rosetta Stone” breakthrough on stealth came from a math equation - courtesy of the Soviet academic Pyotr Ufimtsev who published his equation. The Soviets were not even working on stealth tech at the time.