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TIL That after celebrating Nazi defeat during WWII, all of Moscow ran out of vodka

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aw49N TIL Louis Braille was blinded as a boy when using an awl. At age 15, also using an awl, he invented a reading system for the blind. It was never adopted during his lifetime, but after his death it grew to worldwide popularity, and is now known as "braille".
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ojYK TIL that the media can legally lie in the United States, determined by a case in 2003.
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