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TIL The word "Whiskey" derived from the Old Irish and Scottish and means "Water of life".

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x6Meg TIL the Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike that brought Dr. King to Memphis, where he was assassinated, began after two workers were crushed to death in a garbage truck.
0d5ZR TIL Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's faithful butler, was killed off in the Batman comics in 2019.
R5yR7 TIL that all humans are 99.9% genetically identical — all our visible and cultural differences come from just 0.1% of our DNA.
ANxV4 TIL about the cannonball run, an illegal race against time across the continental USA. The record drive, set during covid, lasted just under 26 hours with an average speed of 112 MPH.
LMZp TIL that theoretically, it would take 4 light years of worth of lead to stop a neutrino.