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TIL a mediterranean sea is a mostly enclosed sea whos water circulation is dominated by salinity changes, so TIL The Mediterranean sea is a mediterranean sea.

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7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.
OYjX TIL that paved roads became mainstream not because of automobiles, but because of bicycles. While cars could go across cobblestones fairly well, bicycles could not.
XEkl8 TIL Pete Best, original drummer of the Beatles, moved to America shortly after Best's firing from the Beatles and released an album titled 'Best of the Beatles' which confused record buyers and generated large sales numbers due to consumers believing that it was a compilation of Beatles songs.
p8ZE4 TIL that Pope Pius XII of the catholic church in 1950 confirmed that there is no intrinsic conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution.
wL1o8 TIL: Whisky and Whiskey are both spelled correct, however, 'Whisky' refers to Scottish, Canadian, or Japanese grain spirits, while 'Whiskey' refers to grain spirits distilled in Ireland and the US.