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TIL that there are bottles of absinthe hidden in a forest in Switzerland. Thirsty hikers are allowed to drink from them.

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mxgrR TIL The bowler hat was the most popular in the American West, prompting Lucius Beebe to call the bowler, "the hat that won the West". The cowboy hat derives from the "Boss of the Plains" hat which was manufactured by J.B. Stetson in 1865 and was marketed to cowboys as a durable success symbol.
EgVx7 TIL A stray cosmic ray is believed to have struck a computer during an 2003 Belgian municipal election and given one of the candidates exactly 4,096 more votes than she should have gotten.
loan5 TIL about the ghost ship Deering. The ship was abandoned by the crew, who took personal belongings, navigational equipment, papers and the ship's anchor. Despite an FBI investigation, no trace of the crew or the ship's logs were ever found. Speculation ranges from a mutiny to Bolshevik pirates.
D1mQD TIL flypaper used to be made with metallic arsenic, which some people would soak in water to extract the poison. Fly paper had been used in several murder cases.
d8lNr TIL that the world’s oldest blockchain runs in the New York Times (pg 16 today BTW)