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TIL: Vodka doesn't have to come from potatoes, it can be made from anything which will ferment. Even grass, or salmon and old newspapers. Vodka just needs to be a clear spirit distilled to 190 proof.

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9wnJX TIL in 2018 it was discovered that for 6 years the city of New Orleans and Palantir Technologies, a data mining firm, worked together with the NOPD to secretly create it's predictive policing technology without the knowledge of even top city officials.
d8yYZ TIL a day before Elvis Presley died on 16 August 1977, Jerry Ehman of Ohio State University detected an unusually strong signal from space. Instead of the typical random numbers, there was a stream 30 times louder than the background buzz of deep space. Ehman was so amazed he wrote the word "wow!"
X0Am8 TIL in 1925, a forger convinced Portugal's money printer to make him 200,000 bills, worth ~1% of Portugal's GDP. They were easily laundered, since they weren't actually counterfeit. To cover his tracks, he started buying a controlling interest in the Bank of Portugal, but was caught. He was 28.
mxl6M TIL of Chen Sheng, a military captain who was ordered to lead 900 men to battle but realised he would not make it in time and that they would be executed. Instead he started a rebellion that led to the fall of the dynasty ruling at the time.
YQDd TIL: The oxytocin system develops during childhood, if that system doesn’t develop properly, you’re more prone to alcoholism and drug addiction as an adult.