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TIL The first Barley Beer in history may be from Iran, where Beer is now illegal for 98% of the population.

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16kAX TIL - JFK's Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage was largely ghost-written by his speech writer Ted Sorensen. When journalist Drew Pearson joked about it on ABC, JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, threatened to sue unless they issued a retraction and apology, which ABC did.
MebM7 TIL of Artur Fischer, a German soldier who survived Stalingrad on the last plane out. After the war, he went on to invent many ubiquitous items such as the synchronized camera flash and the plastic wall anchor, and held over 1100 patents before dying at age 96.
LQLyv TIL about the Dover Sun House, a 1940s-era house heated by molten salt
GXEG TIL That the Sony Vaio Logo represents the integration between Analogue and Digital Technology. the VA being an Analogue Wave, and the IO representing Binary
wLokW TIL when most species of marine mammals are asleep, there is always one hemisphere of their brain that is awake. This allows dolphins, for example, to swim and surface to breathe when they are sleeping. They enjoy the benefits of sleep but still perform many of the same processes done when awake.