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TIL Many hipster "Craft Beers" are actually owned by large companies, including Coca Cola. (infographic only shows Australian brands)

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P15kL TIL The last words of serial killer Peter Kürten were "Tell me... after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures."
wBY1 TIL that in 1949, a member of the New Zealand parliament was deemed to have used “unparliamentary language” for saying of another member that “his brains could revolve inside a peanut shell for a thousand years without touching the sides.”
OoRJ1 TIL the lowest point in the continental US, Death Valley, and the highest point, Mt. Whitney, are less than 100 miles apart
5V9dQ TIL That Europeans In The Middle Ages Used To Sleep In Two Shifts, Dedicating The Period Between Their 'First Sleep' And 'Second Sleep' To A Range Of Activities
6EDyX TIL people struggled to open milk cartons in the 70’s