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TIL “ice beer” is made by freezing beer and skimming of the ice crystals, upping the alcohol content

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5Y44B TIL of a "gravity train". If you could dig a tunnel through the center of the earth, a train could travel from one end to the other through force of gravity alone, coming to a gentle stop exactly at the other end.
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