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TIL mixing diet soda with alcohol will get you drunker than using a sugar-based option.

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X0XAE TIL in 1962, the US accidentally dropped two nuclear bombs over North Carolina. Fortunately, neither of the bombs detonated.
5Yb6Q TIL that James Buchanan was the only president of the USA to serve his term as a bachelor. He never married, and during his tenure the role of first lady was fulfilled by his niece, Harriet Lane.
aARZ TIL All the books in Dumbledore’s office are just the Yellow Pages, rebound to appear old.
xebB TIL that the term “third world” refers to the political allegiance of a country and has nothing to do with its level of development.
9Y4NB TIL that Air Transat Flight 236 lost both engines over the Atlantic, and set a glide record for a commercial airliner of 120km as the pilot successfully made an emergency landing at Lajes Air Base in the Azores.