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TIL During Prohibition, a Michigan grandmother was sentenced to life in prison for selling two pints of alcohol.

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1K4W TIL Monopoly is based on The Landlord Game, a socialist board game all about the evils of monopolies. With socialist messages.
a8LOb TIL The Spanish were the first European settlers in the Florida Keys, and upon unearthing a burial mound on one of the southernmost keys, they named it Caya Hueso, Bone Island, a name later Anglicized into Key West. Spain officially relinquished control of Florida to the United States in 1821.
RY41 TIL During WW2 the British had a plan to assassinate Hitler but didn’t go through with it as he was a terrible strategist and whoever replaced him would have been better at fighting the allies
yVZOJ TIL that the formal name for baby teeth in mammals is "deciduous" teeth, the same word used to refer to trees who uniformly shed and regrow their leaves.
X01X8 TIL that the day of the year with the least number of births is Christmas Day. The day of the year with the most number of births is September 26th, because December 25th is also the day with the most conceptions.