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TIL 24 Carob bean gave name to 24 karats one Roman gold coin roughly 4.5 grams.

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b5rj TIL. Russia implemented prohibition for 11 years, from 1914 to 1925. The ban was enacted even though roughly 1/3 of the government’s entire revenue came through the sale of vodka. It was called “…the single greatest act of national heroism. ”
ANk1w TIL in 1985, the song "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" gained notoriety at an lowa radio station when a DJ played the song 27 times back-to-back during a morning show. The DJ, who was suspended, was reportedly depressed and upset that a co-worker had left the job.
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XEGEQ TIL that Sergei Krikalev, the last Soviet Cosmonaut holds the record of most time dilation experienced by a human, having gained 22.68 seconds on his journeys to space