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TIL when Prohibition was enacted in USA, it took less than an hour for the first documented violation of it to happen

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Y7BlW TIL Kratos has canonically lost to Shovel Knight in combat
loJpV TIL that using his knowledge of telephone systems, Kevin Poulsen, alias “Dark Dante,” hacked the phone lines of a radio station to become the winning caller for a brand new Porsche. He was sentenced to 5 years and banned from using computers for years. Later he reinvented himself as a journalist.
YGnx TIL Switzerland now has a negative interest rate, meaning that banks lose money if they don’t lend and in some circumstances customers lose money if they don’t borrow.
oRRl7 TIL in 2000 Michael Sheen punched actor Jeremy Northam (the Prime Minister in The Crown) for making his wife Kate Beckinsale cry. Northam followed Beckinsale back to her trailer screaming she had ruined his performance in a take, so Sheen punched him right on the nose.
8e0PG TIL that not only has it been more than fifty years since a person last set foot on the moon, the entire period of crewed missions to the lunar surface only lasted three and a half years.