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TIL that only 3% of vodkas worldwide are made from potatoes.

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gMKeL TIL Leigh Mercer, a mathematician and writer, created an equation that, when spoken aloud, was a limerick. "A dozen, a gross, and a score/Plus three times the square root of four/Divided by seven/Plus five times eleven/Is nine squared and not a bit more."
b61pE TIL that the Magna Carta of 1215 introduced legal principles like due process, trial by jury, and limits on arbitrary authority, ideas that later influenced multiple amendments in the U.S. Constitution.
eAmn TIL Carrie Fisher and George Lucas appear in the 1991 movie “Hook” (as uncredited extras, the kissing couple on the bridge).
xVZwg TIL most wheat bread is just white bread with brown dye.
R7Mlw TIL there is rare genetic variation (SNP rs121912617) that allows people to sleep 2 hours less a night with no ill effects.