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TIL Dogfish Head creates beer recipes based upon the chemical analysis of residue found on pottery and drinking vessels from various archaeological sites. They’re called “Ancient Ales”.

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XpPX TIL ABBA turned down 1 billion US dollars to do a 100 concert reunion tour
4Xv4N TIL scientists searching for an explanation for an unusually cool area of sky instead discovered a 'supervoid'; an empty spherical blob 1.8 billion light years across that is the largest object in the known universe. An estimated 10,000 galaxies were “missing” from the part of the sky it sits in.
yQVaX TIL - During WWI, King Albert I of Belgium personally led the defense against the Germans, while the Queen served as a nurse, and their son enlisted in the infanty.
kdkB TIL- Green Beanery, an organic coffee shop in Toronto, says all their proficts go to their owner –Energy Probe Research Foundation–which they call a “federally registered environmental charity”. In reality, it is a lobbyist group for fossil fuel companies, owned by Lawrence Solomon
aMvZ TIL Tupac’s grandma Assata Shakur was the first female to be put on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist List and is currently hiding out in Cuba.