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TIL under German wine law, it is completely illegal to ferment a mechanically-frozen grape

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4ky16 TIL that Gates of the Arctic in Alaska is the northernmost National Park in the U.S. It’s three times the size of Yellowstone but sees fewer visitors in a year than Yellowstone gets in a single day.
78J1P TIL During the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King had originally prepared a different speech than the one we know today. He departed from it after he heard singer Mahalia Jackson cry out: "Tell them about the dream, Martin!". He then partly improvised the now famous "I have a dream" speech.
a6nN TIL that prior to 1970 keyboards did not have an “!” To type it you had to hit “period, backspace, apostrophe”
8PRa TIL Sugar Ray Robinson dreamed he was going to kill an opponent during a match. As a result, he decided to pull out of the fight. However, a priest and a minister convinced him to go ahead. Jimmy Doyle died later that night due to injuries resulting from the bout.
wVrW TIL the first ever in-flight radio transmission was, “Roy, come and get this goddamn cat”