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

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QNErd TIL of Jon Minnoch, the heaviest human ever recorded, weighing over 1400lbs.
5V9B9 TIL that 80s child actress Judith Barsi made so much money by 4th grade, her family bought a house in West Hills. She died at age 10 when her father killed the entire family. Her final films, “The Land Before Time” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven,” were released posthumously.
vJ6r [TIL] In the early days of baseball, the umpire sat behind home plate in a padded rocking chair.
l9VV TIL Kelly Thomas, a homeless man with schizophrenia, was beaten to the point of comatose by Police followed by death as a result, all while Thomas was found not guilty of his charges, and two police officers were found not guilty of manslaughter, the other was not put to trial.
dDlpj TIL about Zersetzung, a psychological warfare technique by which the Stasi repressed opponents in East Germany by methods such as gaslighting or spreading rumors