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TIL that in 2008 “Due to a technical error” wine replaced water in dozens of homes during the Italian grape festival in Marino, Italy.

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e05XL TIL Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the inspiration for the Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. At the end of the film M orders a cover-up story paralleling Maxwell's real death, “Falling overboard on his yacht."
M99W TIL - That reindeer aren’t native to Alaska. Sheldon Jackson purchased them from Siberia to help with the food shortages in the late 1800s. He brought in 16 and by the late 1930s there were 640,000.
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