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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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gwoA TIL MIT engineers created a wearable vest that hooks to and e-book and can change the lighting, sound, temperature, chest tightness, and heart of the reader so they can experience what the character in the book is feeling.
MLZ8 TIL in 1970 Jimmy Carter let a prisoner convicted of murder obtain a work release to serve as a maid at the governor’s mansion. He was so impressed, when he was elected president in 1976 he volunteered to be her parole officer & let her continue working at the White House. She was later exonerated.
nVMB TIL Lay’s WOW chips were recalled because they made people literally shit their pants
5YbpP TIL that the 'Illuminati' conspiracy was dreamt up in Playboy in the 1960s as an experiment to disprove conspiracy thinking. It backfired.
4kX6o TIL about the HMS Dreadnought. The only ship ever to sink a submarine by ramming into it.