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TIL That Country With Highest Divorce Rate are Madlives And Smallest is Vietnam

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ZegD TIL When prohibition was repealed in 1933, Yuengling beer Company sent a truckload of “Winner Beer” to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in appreciation, which arrived the day the amendment was repealed — particularly notable since Yuengling beer takes almost three weeks to brew and age.
DQ5Gj TIL that our human hand also has a golden ratio infact it is the very evolution that gave us the ability to grip
LkaWQ TIL of byssus fabric, or "sea silk" because it was made from the filaments of Mediterranean molluscs, gathered by the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, who wove them into clothes that "when treated with lemon juice, turn a golden colour, which never fades."
xErk TIL there is a $5 fine for anyone on the staff at the Top Gun school who quotes the movie
OxA7 TIL That scientists used a complex algorithm to gauge the level of bias in a media outlet by what quotes each outlet selected from a similar speech. It found that almost all forms of American media had statistically significant media bias.