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

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vPRJB Today I learned Jim Carrey condemned the violence in his own movie Kick-Ass 2.
OGEY6 TIL Mount Rushmore construction was completed on Halloween (October 31, 1941)
N8oe TIL an author was once challenged that he couldn’t make a good story from two bad ideas. The ideas given were “Lost roman legion” & “Pokémon”. The resulting book became an international best seller.
W4lA TIL you can be prosecuted for deleting your browser history– as a felony, with a possible 20-year sentence. Even if you were unaware you were the subject of an investigation.
NweM TIL that Zambia had a space program in the 1960s. It consisted of a grade school science teacher, a teenage girl and her cat, and a missionary.