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TIL during prohibition Herbert Hoover would go to the Belgian embassy to have martinis, as it was not illegal to possess alcohol on foreign soil.

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ybke TIL if you had a baseball-sized piece of neutron star material it would weigh 20 trillion kg, about 40 times the estimated weight of the entire human population
x8X7 TIL that the definition of 1 second is; 9,192,631,770 oscillations of the standard Cesium-133 atom. The bases for Atomic Clocks
R7g7w TIL IQ tests ‘do not reflect intelligence’, and are rarely accurate if given as a singular exam.
wLZo8 TIL in a 1925 divorce settlement a man was required by his ex-wife to build an exact replica of their former home, but she didn't specify where- so he built it with saltwater plumbing on a nearby island.
9YXkm TIL: The U.S. government during the Prohibition Era mandated that industrial alcohols receive toxic additives, effectively poisoning supplies of bootleg liquor. At least ten thousand people are estimated to have died due to bootleg alcohol poisoning.