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TIL The Paris Fire Brigade is a French Army unit which serves as the primary fire and rescue service for Paris.

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9YwoG TIL John Barrowman, who is gay, auditioned to play Will on "Will & Grace" but was turned down for being "too straight". The role went instead to Eric McCormack, who actually is straight.
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
8aJb4 TIL whiskey was still produced during the prohibition- Dr. prescribed "medicinal whiskey"
4krk6 [TIL] If you stretched an ATOM to the size of a football field, the NUCLEUS would be the size of a pea. The nucleus is extremely tiny yet very dense. It accounts for less than one ten-trillionth of the volume of an atom but about 99.9994% of an atom’s mass.
vPjP8 TIL that Jolly Ranchers are technically a type of glass.