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TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk

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6EBk7 TIL that WD-40 has never been patented as patenting would force them to disclose their recipe.
R5jOw TIL that in ancient Rome, urine was so valuable for cleaning and tanning leather that emperors placed a tax on it.
neJAG TIL that in Germany, and some other countries, there's no punishment for escaping prison. Their law consider it's a basic human instinct to want to escape, so no extra time is added to the initial sentence if no other laws are broken in order to escape.
loZB7 TIL that Peru is Portuguese for turkey, meaning that there are two countries in the world called Turkey.
4kE5X TIL that the camera built into a Mac computer is engineered so that it can't activate without the camera indicator light also turning on.