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TIL numerical contractions are words abbreviated by the number of letters between the first and last letter such as i18n, a11y, p13n, k8s, etc.

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77yZ TIL Wine became a drink made from grapes because grapes are the perfect wine fruit. They naturally contain the exact ratio of sugar, tannins, and acid to produce a drinkable wine. Wines like Apple, Plum, and Cherry are artificially balanced out with added sugar and tannins.
kJabd TIL that famous boxing promoter Don King has been arrested for murder twice, one involved beating an employee to death over $600
d8VaB TIL that the longest game in baseball history went for 33 innings for a total of 8 1/2 hours. The game was so long that when pitcher Luis Aponte got home at 3AM, his wife didn't believe his story for being gone. He had to promise her that he would show her proof of the game in the next day's paper.
dbg7 TIL of Nobuo Fujita, the only person to ever drop a bomb on the contiguous U.S. He was later invited back to the town he unsuccessfully bombed but carried his family’s 400 y/o sword to commit seppuku if he received a hostile reception. He was greeted warmly, and donated the sword to the town instead
5YlBn TIL the owners of the Titanic demanded huge sums of money at the time to return the bodies of ship's crew to their grieving families.