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TIL that 45 million year old yeast extracted from amber was revived and used to brew beer, launching the Fossil Fuels Brewing Company

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D1DQj TIL A common cure-all medicine known as Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup contained alcohol and morphine, causing thousands of children to die due to morphine overdoses in the 19th and 20th century
yQjle TIL during the filming of Avatar, the lead visual effects company, Weta Digital, hired 900 people to work on the movie at one time. To render Avatar, Weta made use of 4,000 Hewlett-Packard servers with 35,000 processor cores with 104 terabytes of RAM and three petabytes of network area storage!
PY6Rg TIL: Plymouth, Montserrat the world's only ghost capital of a political territory. The town was abandoned in 1997 after continuous volcanic activity, but it still recognized as the island's capital.
Ego8P TIL that 1899's, Kidnapped By Indians, is the first instance of Storm Trooper Syndrome in cinema history
xV77o TIL A lot of cigarettes are made with small holes in the filter, such to produce less (2-20 times) nicotine and tar when tested in laboratories for public health, using the prescribed ISO method, compared to the other available CI method or reality.