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TIL Mia Khalifa was raised Maronite Catholic

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EPPx TIL that during a five-day battle against mercenaries in the Congo, the besieged Irish Army radioed back to HQ “We will hold out until our last bullet is spent. Could do with some whiskey”.
xV9wb TIL that chocolate milk was made popular by an Irishman named Sir Hans Sloane when he was visiting Jamaica and was offered a cocoa powder drink by the villagers and thought it tasted foul, so he mixed it with milk instead and brought it back to England where it was sold as medicine.
W7N8Y TIL high levels of Neanderthal DNA is linked with LOWER risk of Schizophrenia and Psychotic Symptom
D1gRJ TIL Dolly the cloned lamb was named after Dolly Parton because her DNA came from a mammary gland cell.
9Y4LB TIL that the accidental detonation of a single rocket on the USS Enterprise in 1969 led to a chain reaction of 17 more explosions that nearly destroyed her.