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TIL a blind taste test found most people are unable to tell the difference between a cheap wine and an expensive one.

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Bgpwe TIL the most successful car heist in history was carried out by North Korea - they ordered 1000 Volvos from Sweden and simply did not pay them back
Z87lY TIL of ‘The Matrix defense’. A form of The Insanity Defence in which the defendant claims that they committed a crime because they believed they were in the Matrix. i.e: “This isn’t even the real world, man. How can I actually commit a crime?”
EgMQd TIL that Dame Judi Dench has photographic memory and can recite entire Shakespeare plays from memory.
4XwNJ TIL that in 1920 a 4th century lead tablet was discovered in which Silvanus asked the god Nodens to curse the thief that stole his ring. The ring, interestingly, has been identified as one found 130km from the tablet 200 years prior.
MeLvm TIL the Resident Evil video game franchise was inspired by a conventional (as opposed to zombie) Japanese horror movie called Sweet Home