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TIL17th Century Fraud Gave Rise To Bright Orange Cheese

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RVG7 TIL that Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald in Japan
GxP1 TIL that while in office JFK regularly took painkillers, barbiturates and amphetamines prescribed by the well known celebrity doctor “Dr Feelgood”
X0BGX TIL world's shortest flight is only 1.5 minutes long and it flies between the Scottish islands of Westray and Papa Westray.
1dnO TIL there’s a farm station in South Australia larger than Israel!
OGXEX TIL Alexander Fleming on discovering penicillin was quoted as saying: “When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I suppose that was exactly what I did.”