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TIL that a Gin called Bombay Sapphire was accidentally sold at 77% ABV (154 Proof), instead of it's listed 40% ABV (80 Proof)

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OGlRa TIL that Hawaiians refer to fog caused by a volcano as “vog”
wokMP TIL that Mike Judge moved to Texas and a storm blew off a part of his fence. After his new neighbors fixed it for him, no questions asked, it became the basis for King Of The Hill - "about neighbors who... ultimately, do the right thing and do right by people and are basically good people."
9Yw4G “It’s not as silly a question as you might think,” says Michael Moore, a marine-mammal research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. “It would take some extraordinary circumstances, but any mammal can get rabies.”
Oov0L TIL by share of population, the largest empire was the Achaemenid Empire, better known as the Persian Empire, which accounted for approximately 49.4 million of the world’s 112.4 million people in around 480 BC
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