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TIL There’s a brewery in Germany that’s almost 1,000 years old. It has been in continuous operation since the year 1040

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DrMe TIL that in 1960, a man named Joe Kittinger ascended to the edge of space in a balloon’s gondola, parachuted back to earth and set the record for highest freefall
W7oyL TIL Canada was the first country to declare war on Japan in the Second World War
BrMYd TIL that in 2003, after Kenneth Maxwell called 911 to report a fire he saw while driving home, his voice cut off, and when emergency personnel arrived on the scene he was found shot to death in his car. The fire was set to disguise a double homicide, and the killer saw Kenneth make the call.
M8eK TIL that in 1932 a riot invaded Newfoundland’s government building. The prime minister barely escaped injury and resigned. In 1933 the country—like Canada, an independent English-speaking country neighboring the US—gave up self-government and voluntarily became a British colony again.
e0yRE TIL About Nikola Petkov, a Bulgarian revolutionary who helped establish Bulgaria as a republic, only to be executed by its government after a show trial when he tried to preserve democracy