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TIL: Long before Jack Daniels, George Washington was a whiskey tycoon

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EgdKp TIL that God killed a man because he refused to impregnate his dead brother's wife.
DQ0pD TIL of WWII vet Bert Shepard, the only man to ever pitch in Major League Baseball with an artificial leg
xeAo TIL laws mentioned in the bible required farmers to leave parts of their fields unharvested for strangers, a practice that still exists in parts of the world
M7RGK TIL that the vaguely named vegetable oil is not derived from corn, wheat, or a variety of other vegetables but almost always soybean oil.
XnVk TIL There’s a bunch of water under the Earth’s surface, more than we thought, and there’s 4 Times as much water on our planet than most people are aware of.