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TIL during prohibition in the US, merchants sold “bricks” of grape concentrate with a packet of dried yeast. These would come with a “warning label” cautioning not to mix the brick, yeast, water and sugar in a pot and then seal it for seven days, or else “an illegal alcoholic beverage will result”.

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6E5kJ TIL To solve the problem of communicating to humans 10,000 years from now about nuclear waste sites one solution proposed was to form an atomic priesthood like the catholic church to preserve information of locations and danger of nuclear waste using rituals and myths.
Lgl9 TIL Nikola Tesla was in favor of sterilising criminals and mentally unstable and believed that by 2100 no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny
nndY TIL:Tycho Brahe,A 16th Century Astronomer wore a brass prosthetic nose after losing his real one in a duel over the legitimacy of a mathematical formula. He also owned a trained pet Moose who lived indoors with him. who died after it had drunk a lot of beer, and fallen down the stairs, at a party.
rRwn4 TIL In feudal England, the legal official overseeing a shire was referred to as a reeve. Even though America eventually opted to use the word county instead of shire, the title of the legal official remains today: Shire Reeve... Sheriff.
lonAr TIL The film 'The Conqueror', in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan, was filmed near to a nuclear test site. 91 of the film's 220 cast and crew members developed cancer later in life.