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TIL that 5 states and union territories in India have a prohibition of alcohol.

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ZdJo TIL Fox News has had a median age of 65. The average primetime audience is 2 million.
GYvx4 Today I learned about Valentina Ramírez, the Mexican version of Mulan. She fought in the Mexican revolution under the name of Juan Ramírez after her father passed. Eventually earning the title of lieutenant.
loZxr TIL To portray baby Jesus as all knowing, in renaissance paintings he was given a man face
8akRG TIL Francisco Goya, depressed and having survived 2 life threatening illnesses in his later years, decorated his house with 14 "black paintings" with bleak themes. The famous "Saturn Devouring His Son" was a mural in his dining room
Bwpy TIL in an effort to deter nuclear warfare, Robert Fisher suggested the nuclear codes be placed in the chest cavity of a Presidential aid. The president would have to physically take a life in order to use nuclear weapons.