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TIL Russia didn’t consider beer to be an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before then it was classified as a soft drink.

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xkL0 TIL the leading cause of a death for a white capuchin monkey in the wild is being murdered by another white capuchin monkey.
wLAw8 TIL that the oldest known musical instrument, a 43000 years old flute, could have been made by a Neanderthal.
v9v7 TIL about Ayds, an appetite suppressing candy that was popular in the ‘70s. It was taken off the market in the late '80s after poor sales due to AIDS awareness.
ePw5 TIL Walt Disney planned his own city where everybody would be employed and working for Disney in some way. They would all pay rent for the priviledge of living there and would always be ensured the latest technology in their homes.
r7xW TIL when Team Canada’s Olympic gold medal-winning goalie Shannon Szabados was invited to take practice with the perennial last-place Edmonton Oilers in the spring of 2014, someone asked her if she was worried about getting hit on by the players. Her response: “Nope, they can’t score anyways.”