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TIL that Swiss cheese forgery is a real problem and to combat it, there's a freezer in Bern, Switzerland where government scientists keep 10,000 strains of milk bacteria that can be used to identify counterfeit cheese

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e4gg TIL a chemistry grad student accidentally synthesized the chemical MPTP and gave himself Parkinson’s Disease while trying to make opioids - accidentally advancing Parkinson’s research at his own expense
xJ6k TIL Nancy Cartwright attempted to disturb the guards at Buckingham Palace yelling, “What’s happening man, I’m Bart Simpson, dude!”, she succeeded.
R5KX9 TIL Gene Roddenberry's only appearance in Star Trek was as a ship's chef who told Captain Kirk that the turkey-shaped meatloaf in the galley ovens had turned into real turkeys.
BgMZK TIL Che Guevara went to medical school and became a doctor. He considered it one of the turning points of his life.
69yQW TIL that Venezuela was called Venezuela Saudita or Saudi Venezuela due to Venezuela's Oil Boom in the early 1970s, an Economic Miracle