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TIL playing bagpipes can kill you

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QPV9 TIL the term “Carjacking” originated in Detroit, MI
d8VYd TIL alcohol breath is not from the stomach, rather it's from the ethanol diffusing out of the blood in the lungs. Eating food, chewing gum, or vomiting won't help mask how much alcohol is in your system if you're breathalyzed
W7pxd TIL that J.S. Bach signed some of his compositions by playing the notes B-A-C-H (Bb-A-C-B♮ in German musical nomenclature)
vj0R TIL that the Iranian rules for stoning adulterers to death call for women to be buried up to their chest and men to be buried up to their waist. Using large stones is not allowed because they could bring death too quickly.
GYEXG TIL Congress has met outside Washington DC twice since 1800: July 16, 1987, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ratification of the Constitution, & at Federal Hall in New York on September 11, 2002, to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.