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TIL that Milestii Mici is the biggest wine cellar in the world with a length of 200 kilometers. It is so big that to help visitors to not get lost, the tunnels have names like cities' names.

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6E4eW TIL that in 1948 a high school student by the name of Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264.4 hours for a science fair project. He was monitored by a Stanford sleep researcher and contributed notably to the science community. Following he slept for 14 hours and suffered no observable health issues.
RbDQ TIL that the founder of the Mexican Mafia isn’t even Mexican
4XXMa TIL many shoe stores used to have unshielded x-ray devices, used to measure kids’ shoe fit
9YDJX TIL typhoons, hurricanes, and cyclones are all the same type of storm, they're just called differently depending on where they form
vmVj TIL In 2010 Dave Grohl was admitted to hospital due to a drug overdose… He had consumed too much caffeine from coffee whilst recording a new album.