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TIL that the Georgia House introduced a bill in 2003 making it a “misdemeanor of a high and aggravated nature” for a restaurant to sell Iced Tea without also selling Sweet Tea

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j64lE TIL about Alan Magee, an American airman during WWII. In 1943, he was on a bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France, when his plane broke apart in mid-air and his parachute was torn. Magee blacked out from lack of oxygen and survived a 22,000-foot fall by crashing through a train station's glass roof.
4XRkR TIL that our eyes and ears don’t tell us enough about the outside world, so our brain uses its expectations to ‘hallucinate’ reality.
v1Zbj TIL: The first combat submarine to sink a warship also simultaneously sank itself.
LkJnV TIL that sometimes, the revolution is televised: the execution of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife Elena following the Romanian Revolution was videotaped and shown on TV.
8ew08 TIL some people etch their favorite cooking recipe onto their gravestones when they die. You can find these gravestones and recreate these tasty dishes.