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TIL that the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition in the 20s and 30s, killing over 10,000 people. Although mostly forgotten today, the “chemist’s war of Prohibition” remains one of the strangest and most deadly decisions in American law-enforcement history.

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e0KBL TIL In the Roman Empire, the legal phrase for "committing theft" was "furtum faciendum" which translates literally as "doing a sneak" (48.8.1)
p6pZ TIL: The leader of the Church of Scientology served as Tom Cruise’s best man at his wedding and his own wife disappeared in 2007 after she “filled several job vacancies without her husband’s permission”.
Me4pV TIL about Tthongsul. It's a Korean rice wine made out of fermented feces.
Jayk TIL Samuel Johnson, an Englishman, said regarding the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”
ANoKg TIL Thatcher's Techbase is a mod for the video game Doom II where Margaret Thatcher, "one of humanity's greatest threats", rises from the dead, leading the player to descend into the tenth circle of Hell, the United Kingdom, in order to kill her and send her back to Hell.