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TIL October 1 marks the start of sake brewing season in Japan and is designated International Sake Day.

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p86YO TIL Taco Bell restaurants used to have a real bell on the roof.
VB0XD TIL that three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends’ plane crashed into Lake Powell Utah. The three men swam an hour to the shore through 44F (7C) degree water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived.
R7NG6 TIL Of Frances Kelsey, the physician who refused to allow the deadly drug Thalidomide from entering circulation into the US in the 1960's, saving numerous American infants from disfiguration and birth defects
Oolr1 TIL : Scientists tested a well-preserved substance found in a 2,700-year-old temple in Tel Arad, which turned out to be cannabis. Researchers concluded that ancient Israelites burned the plant alongside frankincense, in religious rituals.
awo1J TIL that a Native American (Charles Curtis, 3/8 Indian) served as Vice President of the U.S.