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TIL there’s a standard called “Beer Clean” for washing glasses that’s more strict than “Water Clean”

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1apOO TIL That in 1966 in response to an attempt to ban To Kill a Mockingbird, Author Harper Lee wrote a scathing response letter to the Hanover County School Board, including a donation with her hopes that it be used to "enroll the (board) in any first grade of its choice".
907G TIL there’s a bracelet with a white bead that carries water from Mt. Everest and on the opposite side, a black bead which contains mud from the Dead Sea (the highest and lowest points on Earth)
gMeKD TIL In 1814 in London, the brewing vats in a brewery burst, releasing 580k to 1.4m litres of beer onto slum dwellings. Eight people were killed, five of them mourners at the wake of a two-year-old boy. The brewery almost went bankrupt but was saved when they received a rebate for the lost beer.
KOZvJ TIL that the HEPA filter was conceived during WWII to guard soldiers and scientists, especially those working on the Manhattan Project, from radioactive particles.
GY7y7 TIL: In 1674, the Women's Petition Against Coffee was filed on the grounds that coffee made men impotent, gossipy & 'Frenchified'.