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TIL that the winner of the Europe Beer Star's best Belgian Style Strong Dark Ale was made in Indiana.

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N7YJ TIL that if you go anywhere outside the US border, when you return the government can detain you for as long as they want, as well as search and seize any of your property they want, an activity American citizens are supposed to be protected from by the 4th Amendment to the Constitution.
0daAp TIL butter sold on the west coast comes in shorter and wider sticks compared to butter sold east of the Rocky Mountains
4eZo TIL JK Rowling deleted the rules of Quidditch from the original Harry Potter manuscript “because she thought it made it too technical”. Her agent made her put them back in
NPZ8 TIL that orcas killed during harvesting for marine parks were stuffed with rocks and sunk to prevent their discovery
E1ODp TIL in 1848, Edgar Allen Poe wrote "Eureka" which envisaged The Big Bang, Black Holes, The Big Crunch and the first plausible solution to the Olbers Paradox. This was 100+ years before any of those were accepted scientific facts and Einstein would later call it "a beautiful achievement".