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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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dJmr TIL that a man called Zeb Quinn went missing in 2000. His car was found two weeks later, with it’s lights on, a pair of lipstick lips drawn on the rear windshield, and a live Labrador puppy inside. Zeb Quinn has never been found.
wok7W TIL The Assassin of Korean Activist Kim Koo Was Later Murdered with a Wooden Club Inscribed with the Words "Justice Stick"
4N7R TIL pigeons can peck at a keyboard when they see yellow life vests floating in the water to signal helicopters to move closer to survivors at sea
OGZ1a TIL the idiom “the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray” originates from a Scottish poem in 1786: “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley, / An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain, / For promised joy”
YpQ6d TIL that donut holes were invented by a 16 yr old sailor named Hanson Gregory. Gregory was tired of eating greasy and undercooked donuts with raw dough on the insides, so he decided to make donuts but with holes in them.