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TIL the Ancient Egyptians had an annual "feast of drunkenness" commemorating the time humanity was saved by beer

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bWla TIL In 1974, Philippe Petit snuck into the World Trade Center disguised as a construction worker, stretched a steel cable between the towers with a bow and arrow, and walked across – 8 times.
pRRQ TIL blacks and Hispanics make up BOTH 96% of victims and suspects of shootings in New York City (Page 11 of 16 in the report) and 85%+ of all crime suspects according to the NYPD [PDF]
Kw6J TIL Monopoly was originally intended to teach the player the broken nature of Capitalism
J1bEl TIL that The statue of liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World), was recycled from a refused similar project supposed to sit next to the Suez canal.
jXma TIL Jif natural peanut butter has to be labeled as “peanut butter spread” because it doesn’t meet the FDA requirements for peanut content–its “non-peanut ingredients” exceed 10 percent.