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TIL: Sam Adams spokesman Jim Koch’s secret to never getting drunk off beer is a teaspoon of yeast.

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1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.
7rDnO TIL Martin Scorsese directed the music video/short film for Michael Jackson’s 1987 song “Bad”
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