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TIL Canada changed liquor laws to start sales at 5 a.m for the Olympic gold medal hockey game.

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XPX8 TIL that Louis Armstrong almost wrote a second autobiography only about marijuana.
aL6M TIL there was a terrorist organization in the late 1940s in Brazil, made up of Japanese immigrants that believed Japan had won WWII. They urged Japanese Brazilians who did not believe them to commit seppuku, and executed those who didn’t.
0wpWy TIL Every year, 10 Russian officials travel to US military bases to check that the B-1 bomber cannot carry a nuke, as part of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
Eg9nP TIL: Slaves made up 65% of South Carolina's population in 1720.
x6Nj7 TIL that average human height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm) 10,000 years ago and it took until the 20th century for average human height to match pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.