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TIL Virtually every brand of hard liquor—bourbon, whiskey, vodka, gin, and rum—is vegan. Nearly all distilled spirits are vegan except for cream-based liqueurs and products that mention honey on the label

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9YjN7 TIL more than six billion different knot types have been identified by mathematicians and scientists since the 1800s.
wL9VE TIL that bed bugs were practically driven to extinction in the United States up until the nineties. We still aren't sure exactly how they managed to come back, but they are sadly becoming much more common every year.
VBQ8Z TIL that e-bike use is increasing in Amish communities as an alternative to a horse and buggy
M71MA TIL media reporting of suicides is carefully regulated as it can trigger more suicides. For example, in Taiwan, reports of charcoal-burning suicides were associated with a 16% increase in suicides by the same method the following day with no corresponding decrease in other methods of suicide.
gM1AW TIL that in 1987, Fred Rogers visited the then-Soviet Union to film a segment for both his show, "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" and "Good Night, Little Ones!", Russia's longest-running children's program. Rogers was the first American to appear on the latter show.