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TIL that President Wilson actually VETO'ed the Volstead Act but congress passed it anyway bringing on the beginning of Prohibition.

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RRyw TIL that someone created a mathematical world (similar to Wonderland from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) called the Garden of Cosmic Speculation. It’s only open to the public one day a year.
ep066 TIL Arnold Reuben, whom the sandwich is named for, also invented New York style cheesecake.
Z8dLY TIL The average cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds or 500,000 kg
YnB7 TIL that a man on death row escaped from prison the night before his execution only to be killed in a bar fight the following night.
vN0x TIL That for years the German military had a parge single shot flamethrower pistol called the “Handflammpatrone”. It was capable of firing a flaming grenade 90 meters, laying a 15 meter wide flame over a 50 meter long area along the way.