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TIL that the Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.

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lDrG TIL Helen Keller was a socialist and one of the founders of the ACLU. After extensive travel, she said, “I had once believed that we are all masters of our fate…Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
x6Bp5 TIL that the creators of Dragon Tales added a third kid named Enrique to the series in the third season, in an effort to educate preschoolers mildly in Hispanic culture
oL5E TIL that during the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic games, NBC dropped a tribute to the victims of the 7/7 attacks, instead cutting to an interview with Ryan Seacrest
dDXJK TIL that commercial fax service was in operation 11 years before the invention of the telephone
xVx7o TIL: There is a tribe in Africa that communicates with birds to find honeybee hives and then gives the birds some of the honey in return.