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TIL that incarcerated prisoners make a contraband drink in prison called "pruno" which entails fermenting fruit, sugar cubes, bread, and water in a ziplock bag a several days.

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A9Dw TIL while Teddy Roosevelt was police commissioner in NY, he ordered about forty Jewish policemen to protect a German anti-Semitic preacher, with the goal to make him ridiculous.
9YEGr TIL babies born on planes flying over US territory are granted American citizenship at birth.
mxAnE TIL the record time for driving from NYC to LA (the ~2800 mile/4500 km "Cannonball Run") is 25 hours 39 minutes. To avoid getting stopped, the car was disguised as a pоlіcе interceptor, and had brake light kill-switches, radar detectors, laser diffusers, CB-radio, and a roof-mounted thermal camera
awvLb TIL The three days without civilian aircraft above the US following 9/11 provided useful data to climatologists about how climate is altered by the high altitude exhaust of planes.
X0En6 TIL the director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) limited the quantity of onscreen gore in hopes of securing a PG rating, but the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rated it an R.