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TIL vintners sold wine bricks during the prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a jug in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.

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pY7dG TIL that chickens lay eggs through the same opening in their bodies that poop comes out of
e5O4 TIL that it is quite common for curious onlookers to start yelling “Jump, b*tch, jump!” or “Go for it!” to suicidal people until they actually jump. This is one of the reasons why the police tries to push the audience out of the shouting range.
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