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TIL mixing your drinks with diet soda gets you drunk 18% faster than regular soda.

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awN4L TIL The Anthropocene is the newest Epoch and is defined by human impact on the geologic record. The two major proposed markers for the Epoch are nuclear fallout/products and chicken bones. Chickens were domesticated 8ka but the modern broiler is easily distinguished in modern human settlements.
6gwY TIL that American Nazi sympathizers built Hitler a hidden, self-sustaining mansion in LA in 1933, and it’s still there.
oBNYo TIL a man called David Phillips bought 12,150 pudding cups in order to successfully collect more than one million air miles. He is now known as 'the Pudding Guy'.
d1e9 TIL that, in Florida, prison executioners are private citizens who are able to remain anonymous and receive $150 per execution.
R59n4 TIL that Hannibal Buress hired a lookalike to attend the movie premiere for “Spider-Man: Homecoming” in his place for $500 and it worked for the most part