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TIL that Danone, the company known for yoghurt, has its own exclusive probiotic strain that it uses in it’s products.

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Lr6Q TIL that when Romania made their ice hockey World Championship debut in 1931, they lost 0-15 to the US. Their captain approached the referee after the game and asked him to write a message on the official game sheet: ”Thank you for playing against us, we have learned a great deal from this game”.
b6Ed4 TIL American Airlines is the largest airline in the world when measured by scheduled passengers carried, revenue passenger mile, and daily flights.
v9NK TIL there is a thought experiment from Plutarch (AD 46 – AD 120) called The ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus’s paradox, that raises the question of whether an object that has had all of its components replaced remains fundamentally the same object.
OBA4 TIL Oliver Reed, Proximo from the movie Gladiator, died during a lunch break on from shooting after drinking 3 bottles of Captain Morgans and 8 beers.
D1lGP TIL that in the extinct Aboriginal Mbabaram language, the word for 'dog' is 'dog'. This is purely coincidental as Mbabaram is unrelated to the English language.