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TIL Grapes have gotten larger due to growth hormone and a technique applied to their vines

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DQEaY TIL that when England held its first lottery in 1567 everyone who bought a ticket got immunity from one arrest as long as it was not piracy, murder, felonies, or treason. Prizes for winning the lottery were £5,000 in cash, but also goods like plate, tapestries and “good linen cloth.”
ANGVn TIL about the crash of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 - a faulty altimeter caused the plane's computers to think it was about to land when it was still too high, and the plane stalled and crashed. However, the aircraft was so slow when it hit the ground that only 9 out of 135 occupants died.
MYdb TIL twins separated at birth, one raised by a German Catholic Nazi family and the other by a Jewish family in Trinidad, both as adults flushed the toilet before and after going, enjoyed sneezing in elevators to startle people, dipped buttered toast in coffee, and wore rubber bands on their wrists.
AwLa TIL Nikolai Tesla patented a one-way-valve with no moving parts in 1920 (Patent US1329559)
Zpx9p TIL a donut shop in Portland, Oregon was told by the FDA to stop adding medicine to food because it included Nyquil and Pepto Bismol to its donuts.