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TIL 29 bars in NJ were caught serving things like rubbing alcohol + food coloring as scotch and dirty water as liquor

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grKmX TIL whales sometimes fart. The bubbles that whale flatulence generates are about the size of a watermelon. The unpleasant odor of whale farts has been described by observers as "a combination of herring breath and the funk of rotten salad." Seals are also known to have particularly noisy farts.
JYbl1 TIL that Stalin’s granddaughter is a punk hippie Buddhist who runs an antique shop in Portland
LQbjm TIL: When asked to sit in the White section of a segregated Southern conference, Eleanor Roosevelt refused to comply and moved her chair right between the White and Black seating sections and sat there for the rest of the conference.
DQNkv TIL that Morgan Spurlock (“Super Size Me”) released a documentary in 2008, “Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?”, in which he correctly deduced that bin Laden was hiding in Abbotabad, Pakistan. After bin Laden’s death, it was revealed that he had a copy of the documentary in his video collection.
KODL6 TIL in 2011, a woman with bipolar disorder tried to enter a resturant via air duct but got stuck on the way. Because of where she was stuck, no one could hear her and she was found dead days later