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TIL Beer was not considered alcohol in Russia until 2013.

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0wB1p TIL Katharine Hepburn is the only person to win an Oscar for portraying a relative. She was a direct descendant of Eleanor of Aquitaine, who she portrayed in The Lion in Winter and won best actress. Eleanor had been dead for more than 750 years when Hepburn played her.
vdGL TIL the concept of Dibs is almost culturally universal.
dd67 TIL that armpit odor is completely dependent on a single gene (ABCC11) and that many East Asians (and almost all Koreans) do not need to wear deodorant because of this gene.
rN5yW TIL Osama Bin Laden sent a letter to America in 2002 citing his reasons for the 9/11 attacks, ciriticzing the country and giving them suggestions.
gMXyX TIL that Rick James and Neil Young were roommates and bandmates in the mid 60s.