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TIL Peruvian chicken (Pollo a la Brasa) was created by a pair of Swiss men living in Peru in the 1950s

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eplgJ TIL of Mo-99—a radioactive isotope of Molybdenum used in hospitals to produce the radioactive tracer Technetium-99m (for medical imaging). Mo-99's half-life is just 66 hours, and is made commercially in only 4 nuclear reactors around the world, most of which are reaching the end of their life.
kOZrd TIL: Country superstar, Garth Brooks, created an alter ego rockstar, Chris Gaines, in 1999.
5Vm8R TIL that the person with the highest IQ ever recorded has the surname Savant.
oBWQ8 TIL that about 25% of people who commit suicide are legally drunk before death
AQ9o TIL that during WW2 an American pilot fell 20,000 feet without a parachute before smashing through the glass roof of a train station. He survived and lived to 82.