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TIL beers were put in six packs after determining that they were the most weight an average housewife could comfortably carry home.

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oRAX7 Today I learned that the green and yellow on the Brazilian flag correspond to a tribute to the royal houses of Portugal and Austria respectively. These colors appeared on the Brazilian Empire flag and remain on the current Brazilian flag.
lGlN TIL Actor Mark Hamill has played The Joker longer than any other actor
4d5 TIL There’s a donut shop in Portland, OR that used to have Nyquil and Pepto-Bismol donuts
gEQA TIL of Starfish. A 60’s US military experiment designed to see what would happen when a nuke was detonated 250 miles above Earth’s magnetic pole. It resulted in an EMP 900 miles wide, an intense artificial aurora, and a radiation belt that disabled 1/3 of the low orbit satellites and lasted 5 years.
Aww TIL that carrier pigeons beat internet upload speed as late as in 2010. They actually sent pigeons over with USB sticks the same time they started uploading a video over broadband and the pigeons won.