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TIL the Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.

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jjER TIL that the Internet has a patron saint named Saint Isidore of Seville. He compiled the knowledge of the ancient world and made it accessible for his own and future generations around 600 AD.
vPmXB TIL that the first 3D printer was developed in 1971 by Johannes F Gottwald and patented under the name 'the Liquid Metal Recorder'.