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TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five

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R5Pnw TIL that Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss put his firstborn child, a girl, up for adoption as he was too poor to raise her at the time and never mentioned her to his six other children. The woman eventually connected with her birth family in 2018 and wrote a book about the experience.
rNdDW TIL that "Batman" is also a surname meaning "Friend of Bart", referring to Saint Bartholomew.
yQkAp TIL Tom Cruise himself actually created the character (and the dance) for Les Grossman, suggesting "What about some greedy pig studio executive who really represents the gross part of Hollywood?” because of how much he enjoyed the script of Tropic Thunder and wanted to be in the movie.
mxO9M TIL in 1974 Howard Hughes helped the CIA raise part of a sunken Soviet submarine from a depth of 16,000 feet - all without the Soviets knowing. They recovered two nuclear torpedoes, documents, and the remains of 6 sailors - who they respectfully buried at sea.
7bVL TIL of the Wolverine frog, a frog that breaks its own bones in order to project claws through its skin when threatened