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TIL Welch’s Grape Juice was originally developed as an alternative to wine at sacrament by the Wesleyan Methodist Church.

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BrJey TIL About Lysenkoism, an agricultural practice that rejected "bourgeois science" and caused multiple famines in China and the Soviet Union.
rRQeM TIL Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Seven Bucks Production’ Is Named After How Much Money He Had After Being Cut From The CFL In 1995
BrrKy TIL the unit used to measure shoes/feet in Britain is called a Barleycorn (1/3rd of an inch)
X0wGr TIL: At least 1/3 of the US Cycling Team in 1984 LA Olympics were doped with a process called "blood doping". The American Cycling team won 9 medals.
w4b1 TIL of the marriage market in Shanghai, China. Every weekend parents come to the market to exchange information about their unmarried adult children and arrange blind dates.