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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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jNdbv TIL that the Nazi's went on an Antarctic expedition to claim it before WW2. When doing airplane surveys they had to drop weight, so they dropped boxes of metal swastikas that were supposed to be dropped all over Antarctica. So there's boxes of swastikas on the Antarctic ocean floor somewhere.
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