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TIL Russia did not treat beer as an alcoholic beverage until 2011. Before that, beer was classified as a soft drink.

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Q096 TIL after getting lost in the desert a man tried to kill himself by slitting his wrists, he was so dehydrated his blood clotted the wounds. 9 days later he was rescued 186 miles (299km) away and had lost 40lbs (18kg) living off his urine, bats and snakes.
loV11 TIL that just before the premiere of the 1977 ABC sitcom Soap, L.A. Times published a leaked memo from the network's standards department: "The colloquy between Peter and Jessica...which relates to cunnilingus/fellatio is obviously unacceptable"
R7JA1 TIL that Steven Bradbury, the Australian who won an Olympic gold in speed skating because everyone else fell down, owns a brewery called Last Man Standing
69VAY TIL that on April 28, 1988, the roof of an Aloha Airlines jet ripped off at 24,000 feet, but the plane still managed to land safely.
0wnmR TIL the popular door knock "dah dah dah dah dah...dah dah" is know as the "Shave and a Haircut" and was used by POWs during the vietnam war to identify new US prisoners. They would tap the first five notes, and wait for the last two notes in response