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TIL Schlitz was the first beermaker in the world to use a brown bottle. In 1902, Schlitz surpassed Pabst as the best selling American beer.

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Lkdxr TIL about the Holodomor (death inflicted by starvation) which refers to the starvation of millions of Ukrainians during 1932-1933 caused by soviet policies. Private farms were destroyed and were replaced by collectivized farms. We remember this event on the fourth Saturday of every November.
GYkXG TIL the very first US episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares featured a restaurant owned by an actual mobster connected to the Bonanno crime family
OP86 TIL after Pablo Escobar’s death, the 4 hippos he kept as pets have begun to breed and become an invasive species in Colombia
69B0w TIL Professional clowns submit their likeness to the Clowns International group to copyright their unique looks, who paint eggs to match the hair, makeup and costumes of each performer, and then files them in the Clown Egg Register
vP1y4 TIL there is a Guinness World Record for the fastest time for a dog to pop 100 balloons.