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TIL that Crown Royal, Johnnie Walker, Jeb, Windsor Premier, Buchanan’s, Bushmills, Smirnoff, Ketel One, Cîroc, Bailey’s, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tangueray, and Guinness are all owned by the same company.

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oBaEW TIL: After WW2, the Allies discovered meticulous plans for a Sun Gun by the Nazis. Planned by renowned Nazi Scientist Hermann Oberth, it was a .62 mile mirror attached to a space station to burn cities and evaporate oceans estimated to take 15 years to build. He later joined NASA.
NnmN TIL that upon initial release in 1966, a comma was mysteriously added to the Rolling Stones song by the record company, making the official title “Paint It, Black”
p84pp TIL Sandy Hook perpetrator Adam Lanza was visited by the FBI when he was 12 for hacking through 2 levels of government security. They said if he was really that good he could work for them someday.
wLwO6 TIL in 2015 the British passed a law that the eldest living child of a monarch inherits the throne, regardless of sex.
N7Em8 TIL of "Dr. Death". Jack Kevorkian claimed to have performed physician-assisted suicide of at least 130 people.