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TIL that at restaurants in Utah, you have to order food with your alcohol

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GYWyN TIL a Hungarian chemist during WWII hid his Nobel Prize by dissolving it in acid and leaving it on a shelf due to the Nazi ban on its citizens from accepting the Nobel Prize. After the war, he reconstituted the gold from the acid, returned it to Sweden, and got the medal cast again.
KlNQ TIL that the NFL trademarked the term “Super Bowl”. As a result, many events and promotions tied to the game are forced to refer to it as “The Big Game” or other descriptions.
N7K1b TIL: A farmer in Colorado paid $60K for the retired squad car of a deputy who was killed in the line of duty to gift the car to the deputy’s son.
4kg TIL that Tesla said that if you stick a rod far enough into space the temperature difference would create an electrical current and a motor could be run off it and that this (while not doing any work itself) did not violate the second law of thermodynamics.
xVPMb TIL Cops arrested a 99-year-old woman so she could cross it off her bucket list