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Today I Learned: Guy Pearce Is Australian

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yQjwe TIL that two window-washers and a health food store owner founded Unadulterated Food Products in 1972. After creating a batch of apple juice that accidentally fermented in the bottle and caused the caps to snap off, they began calling the drink Snapple which later became the company name.
0dvGR TIL when adjectives are strung together, there is an order to them to sound “correct”, the order being Opinion, Size, Physical Quality, Shape, Age, Colour, Origin, Material, Type and Purpose.
78rKL TIL in 2008 Morgan Spurlock (director of Super Size Me) made a movie called 'Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?'. Later on the CIA revealed that Osama bin Laden himself had a copy of the film at his hideout in Pakistan.
X008k TIL David Lunt revolutionized amateur astronomy by introducing the first hydrogen-alpha solar telescopes for consumers in the late 1990s. Through his telescopes, the ruby-red Sun looks alive, with prominences jutting from the limb, and bright flares erupting around sunspots
8a7A8 TIL all Australian doctors who plan to stay in Antarctica during the winter must have their appendix removed in case of an unexpected rupture.