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Til that Thailand bans the sale of alcohol on election days.

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5YAmB TIL that before the 2007 Super Bowl halftime show, the show's producer called up Prince to ask him if he was okay playing in the rain, to which Prince responded: "Can you make it rain harder?"
RKll TIL David Letterman sponsors a scholarship at Ball State that is supposedly awarded to “average” students, since he was a mediocre student.
J11Q4 TIL the luxury Mercedes Benz G-wagon was first designed and made after a suggestion from the last Shah of Iran.
5YGKB TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
DZmD TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine