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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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Brgex TIL herd animals in the wild often hang around with giraffes. The giraffes, being so tall, give the herd animals such as Zebra and Wildebeest an early warning of lions sneaking up on them. These herd animals benefit by having friends in high places (quite literally).
VRkm TIL Bruce Banner was renamed to David Banner in the 1978 TV-series The Incredible Hulk because CBS thought Bruce sounded too gay.
xQ87 TIL Elvis Presley’s Manager would sell “I Love Elvis” and “I Hate Elvis” badges to maximize revenue.
MeGkW TIL that during Rock Springs Massacre in 1885 a mob of white coal miners in Wyoming attacked Chinese miners, many of whom they burned alive. Others were “scalped, mutilated, branded, decapitated, dismembered, and hanged,” killing at least 28. Sixteen men were arrested, but none were indicted.
v40B TIL: 250 million years ago coal fires may have caused “The Great Dying” aka the Permian Extinction, in which 80% of life on land and 90% of sea life were killed