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TIL: During Prohibition in the US, it was illegal to buy or sell alcohol, but it was not illegal to drink it. Some wealthy people bought out entire liquor stores before it passed to ensure they still had alcohol to drink.

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0wDoL TIL about "Теоретики" ("The Theorists") a Belarusian comedy series about a group of nerdy scientists who become friends with a blonde waitress. When it was pointed out that the concept, titles, sets, costumes and scripts were stolen from the American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," the actors quit.
a9wL TIL that for native English speakers, the hardest languages to learn are: Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, and especially Japanese.
VMWjm TIL in 1800s, freed African-American slaves were helped to migrate to Liberia to escape oppression into a country of their very own, where they immediately established an apartheid upon their native African cousins, treating them the same way they were treated by their white oppressors.
OoA8L TIL - Elephants are one of the few species on Earth with ‘Death Rituals’, whereby the herd will gather around the dead, cover the body and mourn the death. They have also been known to revisit the bones of the dead, sometimes years after the death.
E1N90 TIL a Japanese teenager, Yaoya Oshichi, was tried for attempted arson in 1682. She did this because she wanted to reunite with a temple worker she met at another fire. They tried to try her as a minor, but she didn't pick up on the judge's hints to lie about her age. She was burned at the stake.