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TIL that the first documented infringement of the Volstead Act was less than an hour after it came into force, when $100,000 worth of whisky was stolen by armed men.

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Z8kdB TIL that mozzarella is generally not sold packaged in a brine in North America
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8ZjK TIL The founder of the American Nazi party was murdered outside a laundromat by one of his own supporters.