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TIL that the year on bottles of wine is the year the grapes were picked, not the year the wine was bottled.

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7VBL TIL the term “Cold War” was first invented by George Orwell, author of the book satirising stalinism, “Animal Farm”.
R5x78 TIL about the Book Women: during the Great Depression women would ride packhorses loaded with books to rural Appalachian towns, the Pack Horse Library project aimed to promote literacy.
OorYX TIL that in UK in the 18th century people with epilepsy were automatically thrown in prison, because at the time criminology centered around physical features determining whether the individual was guilty or not
vPEGD TIL during the filming of the bulgarien movie Khan Asparuh 20,000 soldiers and 1,300 horses were mobilized. NATO was thinking that Bulgaria is preparing for a war.
yQ4ya TIL that one of the key early fundraising tools for the Nazi Sturmabteilung was operating their own cigarette company.