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

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KL7R TIL Queen Victoria’s reign of 63 years and 7 months were longer than that of any other british monarch in history and the longest of any female monarch in history.
OGYA6 TIL that pensioners in the UK over the age of 80 who claimed a state pension before 2016 receive a massive 25p week increase 'in recognition "of the special claims of very elderly people who on the whole need help rather more than others”'
wo0a6 TIL that "Weird Al" Yankovic is one of only five artists to chart on the Billboard Top 100 each of the previous four decades. The other four are U2, Madonna, Michael Jackson and Kenny G.
NNkE TIL that Jon Huntsman Jr., our new Russian Ambassador, has extensive business ties to Russia through his father (John Huntsman Sr., Founder & Chairman of Huntsman Corp)
kO1le TIL the first civil nuclear accident happened in Canada in 1952 when a reactor core was damaged. Contaminated light-water leaked out of the reactor and led to a major response effort. Future U.S. president Jimmy Carter, then a Navy Lieutenant, was part of the cleanup crew