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TIL 5.3% (over 3 million) annual deaths are due to alcohol and drug use

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VMGJ4 TIL that Danny DeVito used worked as a hair dresser in his sister's beauty shop for six months when he was just 19. The salon was at a central place in New Jersey and he loved the female attention, though eventually decided he is better off moving to Manhattan and trying to find an acting gig.
Wx7o TIL a French man on trial for witchcraft in the 1500’s decided to troll his accusers before being sentenced to death and declared that not only was he indeed a sorcerer, but there were more than 300,000 others in France alone, setting off mass hysteria across the country
YpG4Z TIL cars crashing into buildings is so common in North America that it doesn't even make the news anymore.
Opm4 TIL that in 1999, hackers revealed a security flaw in Hotmail that permitted anybody to log into any Hotmail account using the password ‘eh’.
OogPa TIL of Elizabeth Swaney, a completely average skier who managed to compete in the Olympics by cleverly manipulating the system