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TIL: White wine can be made from red grapes. Red wine is just made by leaving the skin on them.

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P1kOe TIL the first Ciabatta bread was made in 1982
9YOym TIL that the term “mental retardation” which we now deem “inappropriate”, was a medical term for people with intellectual impairments, invented to replace terms that were more offensive. The American Association on Mental Retardation introduced it to be a neutral term in 1961.
78PEO TIL to date the most expensive NFL trading card ever sold is a 2017 Panini National Treasures Platinum #161 Patrick Mahomes II (Kansas City Chiefs) NFL Shield Rookie Autograph 1/1 which fetched $4.3 million in a private sale in July 2021.
6ENR8 Fiber lasers mean ray guns are coming.
baKp TIL that on his deathbed, Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, asked his wife to inject him with LSD and for her to stay by him, he died 6 hours later and she notes it as ‘the most beautiful death she has ever experienced’