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TIL: Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, once worked as a gold mining geologist/engineer in the Australian Outback, in the 1890s

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yV7bw TIL the antibiotic rifampin/rifampicin (used to treat tuberculosis) was named after the 1955 French crime movie "Rififi," about a jewel heist and rival gangs, because the discoverers were fans of the movie
gOM9 TIL that Sati, a practice where a widowed woman would immolate herself on her deceased husband’s funeral pyre, still exist in rural parts of India.
nX9b TIL some shots of the parade scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off were secretly filmed during an actual parade. The production’s float was inserted into the parade “unbeknownst to anybody, all the people on the reviewing stand. Nobody knew what it was, including the governor”
GYWn4 TIL that Fucking Hell is a German Pilsner or pale lager with an alcohol content of 4.9%. It is named after the village of Fucking in Austria; hell is the German word for 'pale' and a typical description of this kind of beer
Zj0a TIL another human could be living inside you. Many people are biological “chimera” without realising it, because their body absorbed an unborn sibling soon after conception.