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TIL whiskey was still produced during the prohibition- Dr. prescribed "medicinal whiskey"

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Eg64o Til that Paul Reubens' (Pee Wee Herman) father, Milton Rubenfeld, was one of the Five founding pilots of the Israeli Airforce in 1948.
grnnD TIL originally Krusty the Clown was going to be revealed as Homer Simpson in disguise, which is why they were drawn so similarly. The concept was later dropped because it was deemed too complicated for the show.
GANxG TIL from the 1920s-2000s, some South Koreans believed running an electric fan in a room without an open window would lead to death
mBgx TIL the panda’s gut isn’t suited to digesting bamboo and can only digest 17% of the bamboo it eats. Instead, it is more suited to eating meat, like other species of bears.
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