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TIL that a New Jersey statute prohibits most retailers from possessing more than two retail alcohol distribution licenses, thus making it difficult for chain stores to sell alcoholic beverages

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wpyE TIL Mark Twain despised Jane Austen and was quoted as saying: “Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone”
rEw TIL there have been more than 2000 nuclear explosions worldwide. This is a time-lapse video of every detonation since 1945.
jNbgQ TIL that the difference between a healthy fear and clinical phobia is not logic. You can be afraid of anything , like this person who had a celebrity phobia. She was afraid of Hugh Jackman.
mOaM TIL: Before Nazis used the salute commonly referred to as the “Hitler salute,” Americans did it while saying the Pledge of Allegiance
nZOP TIL that the reason Han Solo was frozen in carbonite in Empire is because George Lucas wasn’t sure if Harrison Ford would come back for the next film.