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TIL that milk from the USA that contains BST or bST(pretty much most of the milk sold at your local grocery store) is banned in Canada, all of Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other countries

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X0AoR TIL that the 2010 FIFA world cup song "Waka Waka" by Shakira is actually based on a 1986 song "Zangaléwa", by Cameroonian band Golden Sounds, which was a hit not only across Africa but also in Colombia with the help of West African DJs where Shakira heard the tune when she was a child.
LklO0 TIL of conjoined twins who share a brain stem. When one is tickled, the other jumps, and putting a pacifier in the mouth of one could cause the other to stop crying. There is evidence that the twins can even see through each other's eyes.
PY9eO TIL Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist of Creedence Clearwater Revival and brother of John Fogerty, contracted HIV from an unscreened blood transfusion following back surgery in the 1980s and died of HIV complicated TB in 1990
9lo6 TIL The inventors of bubble wrap, Alfred Fielding and Marc Chavannes, were originally trying to make 3D wallpaper.
QJVka TIL that General George S Patton was behind the first automobile attack when hunting down Pancho Villa in 1916.