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TIL Part of the land where the Pentagon sits today used to be a hemp farm

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P1k9V TIL The Statue of Liberty’s copper skin is about the thickness of 2 pennies.
ANAgo TIL one possible origin to the idiom, "shake a leg", meaning to 'get going' or 'hurry it up' came after battles during the Civil War. Stretcher-bearers would violently jostle a leg or arm to elicit a response from victims on the field to determine if he were alive or dead.
l7e5 TIL that during prohibition, solid grape concentrate was sold with the warning message, “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”
y0QX TIL that the filters on cigarettes have no proven health benefits, and are the most common form of litter in the world.
mx6oE TIL Colonel Sanders bleached his facial hair to match his white hair