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TIL: An Oregon Woman’s DUI arrest set female blood alcohol content record at .55 BAC

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WLZN TIL Cher is the only artist to have a Billboard number one hit in each of the past 6 decades
9w79X TIL the idea of continental drift wasn't widely accepted in the scientific community until the 1960s. This is ~40 years after quantum mechanics was solidified in the 5th Solvay Conference (1927)!
D1lLD Til that in 1989 the U.S.A was going to build a 50 mile long particle accelerator in texas that would have discovered the higgs-boson 10 years before CERN.
WKJ4 TIL There used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared because of a fungus that kills them as saplings.
PY9MZ TIL that Bob Widlar (uA702 creator) installed "The Hassler" outside his office. Whenever people started talking, the device would detect the audio, convert it to high freq, and playback the converted sound. Visitors would notice this ringing, stop talking, and the sound disappeared. Lesson learned.