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TIL A woman texted “Driving drunk woo” 3 minutes before crashing her car into a truck which killed her 22 year old passenger friend.

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ZPYR TIL that in WWI Canadian soldiers used urine-soaked cloths as primitive respirators against chemical attacks. The ammonia in urine would react with the chlorine, neutralizing it, and that the water would dissolve the chlorine, allowing the soldiers to breathe through the gas.
e0Kx5 TIL Chris Morris, from the IT Crowd, has been fired from many jobs due to the many pranks he has pulled during his radio career, including filling one of the radio booths with helium, causing the newsreader to report the news in an extremely high-pitched voice.
e1LJ TIL Koalas spend 99% of their time eating and sleeping, the other 1% is spent searching for a mate, where they wander around aimlessly until they find one. If they don’t find one eventually they give up and just go back to sleep
7rPyL TIL that on April 1st 1962 the Swedish television network SVT pranked viewers by having an "expert" demonstrate that placing a nylon stocking over their black & white TV would turn it into a colour TV
nY9b TIL that the English idiom “It’s all Greek to me” exists in many other languages. However, in most cases, instead of Greek the language identified as unknown is most often Chinese.