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TIL NYC water is not kosher.

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grm9b TIL: The London Beer Flood of 1814 killed 8 people and nearly bankrupted the brewery. One 22 foot tall barrel burst, causing a chain reacting leading to 128k-323k imperial gallons to flood London for 2 days. During that time, stories of mass drunkenness occurred.
0vd1 TIL More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined
BrLkd TIL A denarius is an ancient Roman coin made of silver and a common day's pay for unskilled labor was equal to one denarius. Over its approximate 400 years of being issued, the denarius lost much of his purchasing power due to inflation
wLGbo TIL In 1963, Heineken created a beer bottle that could also function as a brick to build houses in impoverished countries after he took a trip to the island of Curacao in the Caribbean Sea and discovered that he could barely walk 15 feet on the beach without stepping on a littered Heineken bottle.
VBAl8 TIL Swedish mass-immigration to the USA began in the mid-1840s and peaked in 1887 with over 46,000 registered emigrants that year. Out of the 1.3 million Swedes who emigrated to the US, approximately one-fifth returned to their homeland