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TIL that Pabst Brewing Company made cheese (called Pabst-ett) as a way to survive Prohibition.

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Rwb4 TIL Winston Churchill taught his parrot to say ‘Fuck Hitler’ and 'Fuck the Nazis’
aw9Ky TIL that during the space race, Stanley Kubrick was so worried that humans would soon make first contact with aliens that he tried to buy an insurance policy for 2001: A Space Odyssey in case audiences found his depiction of aliens ridiculous.
RL1l TIL Vatican officials are changing the way they think about same sex couples. They are telling the Catholic Church to “welcome gays”
l7WaG TIL the term Heimweh (homesickness) was coined in the 17th century for Swiss mercenaries. It was seen as a medical condition that supposedly only affected the Swiss—until the 19th century, when it was recognized as universal.
rRMp1 TIL in 1638 Bishop John Wilkins – an English clergyman, naturalist, and member of The Royal Society – wrote A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet, in which he predicted a human colony on the Moon.