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TIL the Norwegian "Line Aquavit" is still to this day sent by boat to Australia and back before it gets bottled and sold

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b6bd7 TIL about Ludger Sylbaris, a jailed Martiniquais sailor, who survived the 1902 Mount Pelée eruption that claimed ~30,000 lives, because his stone-walled, bomb-proof underground cell acted as a makeshift bunker.
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