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TIL research suggests that beer has nothing to do with the “beer gut”

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PXGg TIL about operation Vegetarian, a 1942 plan by the British military to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax on German fields where they would be eaten by cows and thus infect the civilian population that ate them, the test site in Scotland remained uninhabitable until the 1990’s
XbMR TIL the Scottish national animal is the unicorn because it was deemed the enemy of the lion - the English national animal.
NoNe TIL Of a set of twins from the UK - one is black and one is white. They have the same parents.
pepQ TIL that in 1981 Ozzy Osbourne went to a meeting with the head of CBS Europe in Germany so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s glass of wine.
KOp9w TIL that lobsters were once only fed to poor people and prisoners