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TIL there is no road connecting North and South America
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TIL alcohol breath is not from the stomach, rather it's from the ethanol diffusing out of the blood in the lungs. Eating food, chewing gum, or vomiting won't help mask how much alcohol is in your system if you're breathalyzed
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TIL LED traffic lights have led to car crashes and deaths in the past, since they emit too little heat to melt snow & ice which block the lights
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TIL: South Korea has a lot of unique cosmetic surgeries not available in the West. These include vagina lifts by injecting Botox in calves, "glass skin", round foreheads, surgeries that forces a "resting bitch face", and permanent smiles. 1/3 women get cosmetic surgery before 25, and some weekly.
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TIL that,during the Cold War, the Canadian government commissioned the creation of a device that could detect homosexuality in people in order to keep members of the LGBT community out of public service or the military.Its nickname?"Fruit Machine".
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TIL in the 1941 Battle of Raseiniai, a single Russian KV tank stopped an entire German Division for a full day until it finally ran out of ammunition