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TIL that being awake for 20 hours is equivalent to being drunk enough to be forbidden from driving.

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9Vxm TIL MI6 hacked an al-Qaeda website and replaced it’s bomb-making instructions with a cupcake recipe.
a8Ako TIL the oldest pancake race in the world still takes place in Olney in the UK, and dates back to 1445
wL4MW TIL of Fukushi Masaichi, collector of tattoos taken from the dead. He had acquired these skins by working in a charity hospital, and by offering people money "to finish their tattoos on the condition he could harvest the tattoo when they died."
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m1D5E TIL that ants are much more closely related to bees than wasps are