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TIL Russia banned the sale of vodka during World War I. The government immediately lost a third of its income.

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QJMPd TIL that Usain Bolt was offered a position as wide receiver in the NFL and rejected it due to the hits NFL players take.
p8VB4 TIL the director of GoldenEye 007 (the game) discovered an issue with the N64's hardware, prior to the console's launch. Silicon Graphics, makers of the N64 chipset, considered doing a revision with a fix, but ultimately decided not to, due to costs and the possibility of that causing another delay
BrX6W TIL that every year in Madrid, Spain, a sleeping contest is held. Contestants’ pulse are measured throughout the contest and whoever manages to sleep the most out of the 20 minutes duration wins the event.
doXZ TIL Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft
VBdV8 TIL that earthworms have "completely scrambled" genomes, and belong to the taxonomic class Clitellata.