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TIL that diabetics’ urine can be made into whiskey because of the urine’s high sugar content

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44gN TIL Oscar winners must sign an agreement stating that should they wish to sell their statuettes, they must first offer them to the Academy for $1. If they refuse, they cannot keep their trophy.
X0jG8 TIL Eddie Adams, the man behind the famous Saigon Execution photo, regretted taking the photo later in life. He saw the executioner as a hero, as the prisoner allegedly killed six children and an elderly woman. He personally apologized to the executioner for the impact it had on him and his family.
5lB8 til in 2005, Denver took people’s dogs and euthanized them if them they resembled a pit bull
Wkee8 TIL JFK uninvited Sammy Davis Jr to his inauguration because he married a white woman
ADEEB TIL that one of the 2 co-owners/founders of Macy's died on the Titanic, along with his wife, because he refused to board rescue ships before women and children were helped. His wife chose to stay behind because she did not want to abandon her husband, so they both died together aboard the Titanic.