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TIL of tyromancy, the practice of telling fortunes with cheese

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PYygg TIL there are about 100 secret offices in the U.S. Capitol building used by members of the Senate and senior members of the House; their locations are unknown even by staff members.
woLjY TIL of the Hubble-Barn unit of volume, arrived at by multiplying the size of an atomic nucleus by the length of the observable universe, equal to 13.1L.
yQ04v TIL that the G-spot is named after Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg who claimed to have discovered a region in the anterior vaginal wall that was particularly sensitive to tactile stimulation
ne6E7 TIL that a Scottish man lost 276 pounds by not eating for 382 days. He only drank tea, coffee, and sparkling water and took vitamin supplements.
G6PE TIL in 2012 six LCD screen manufacturers were discovered to have colluded in selling over $70 billion price-fixed screens.