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TIL That almost all vodka's come from a same place and the only difference is who's adding the distilled water.

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RmJj TIL that in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire in Boston, at least 300 people lost their lives because the doors opened inwards. This prompted the regulation that all doors in a public building must open outwards.
ZpKOv TIL that "Julie; or, the New Heloise" was the best-selling novel of the 1700s. Some readers were so obsessed that they could not accept that the book was fiction. Rousseau, the author, said that so many women offered sex to him that he could have slept with any aristocratic woman had he wanted to.
R5lV8 TIL that Richard Harvey, the recorder player on the soundtrack for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, did not know the track "A Window to the Past" would begin with a recorder solo until the orchestra started playing the piece in the recording studio.
XOrP TIL that Pablo Picasso, living in Nazi-occupied Paris, suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of his painting Guernica in his apartment, “Did you do that?” Picasso responded, “No, you did.”
5VAl9 TIL that there have been several scientific papers published associating the winning chances in football or soccer matches with playing a short pass based possession game, now known popualrly as tiki taka