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Worcestershire Sauce Was an Abandoned Mistake

The first batch was so foul that its makers shoved the barrel into the cellar and forgot it — until time turned the failure famous.

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Sports Tennis

The yellow tennis ball changed color for television

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Earth & Climate Oceans

The ocean holds 97 percent of all the water on Earth

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History War & Conflict

Did Enigma codebreaking shorten WWII by two years?

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Sports Motorsport

The fastest F1 pit stop changed four tyres in 1.80 seconds

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Earth & Climate Geology

A weatherman saw that the continents had once fit together

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Vanilla is the second-priciest spice because every flower is pollinated by hand

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