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TIL that Belgium is building a beer pipeline that will move 1,500 gallons of beer per hour

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KOLbJ TIL that the rumbling sound your belly makes when you're gassy is called borborygmus
d84Gd TIL a pilot of a mail carrier plane once flew upside down for an extended of period of time to disorient the disgruntled employee trying to murder him and his copilot with a hammer and speargun.
WKOY TIL the Soviet Union promoted junk science to such an extent that it spawned a new word - “Lysenkoism” - which is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological basis.
lonQV TIL sugar rushes were determined to be a myth in 1985 (and again in 1995)
rR5n0 TIL Pîhtokahanapiwiyin, or Poundmaker, who successfully pushed back a Canadian military force and instead of continuing the fight, he surrendered himself to the British government stating, "Had I wanted war, I would not be here now. I should be on the prairie. You did not catch me. I gave myself up.