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TIL Australia has the longest continually producing shiraz vines in the world.

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kBgW TIL that between 1885 and 1887 Alfred Barnard visited every working whisk(e)y distillery in Great Britain and Ireland. He went on to publish a 500 page book: “The Whisky Distilleries of the United Kingdom,” one of the definitive texts on whisky. Two years later did the same thing for breweries.
MdVm TIL There is such an expansive collection of books under the British library in their archive, that if a person could read 5 books per day it would take the 80,000 years to complete.
R6o9 TIL the “father of chemical warfare”, Fritz Haber, a Jew, pioneered many poisonous gasses for warfare use in WW1. He had family members killed in concentration camps by the same gasses.
mxQxo TIL that 9/11 is the anniversary of the 1973 coup d'état in Chile led by General Pinochet, who executed thousands and interned and tortured tens of thousands for 17 years. While the U.S. may not have directly backed the coup, it appeared to condone it and worked with Pinochet afterwards.
Z8Kop TIL Rolex designs the Greenroom at the Oscars