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TIL: Regular store-bought fruit juice contains 'substantial amounts' of ethanol(alcohol).

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VBQRZ TIL that the world's largest Singer Sewing Machine factory in yhe world was in Clydebank Scotland
9ngm TIL the Khmer Rouge killed ~25% of Cambodia’s populace by making everyone work 12 hours daily on farms. Intellectuals were killed. Schools, religion, freedom to travel, money, factories, & hospitals were eliminated. The K.R. exerted control by limiting married couples’ visits & scattering families.
7J6O TIL there is a mushroom found in Europe and North America known as chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus). It tastes like chicken, crab or lobster.
VMxV8 TIL about Mitchelville. A self governing American town where newly freed slaves developed and thrived as the first free black town after the Civil War.
j61YQ TIL the hymn 'Amazing Grace' was written by an ex-slave ship captain and slave trader. After finding Christianity later in life he turned his back on the trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. He was also held as a slave himself before escaping.