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TIL In Japan, you're guilty until proven guilty.

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Y7Vw7 TIL that when the clocks go back at the end of daylight saving time (today in some places) is the day with the fewest heart attacks since everyone has 1hr more of sleep. Correspondingly the day with the most heart attacks is when daylight saving starts in the spring
6EdoJ TIL in 1974, Johnny Carson told NBC that he wanted the network to stop airing reruns of The Tonight Show on weekends by the following summer. They had to create an original program to run at 11:30 on Saturday nights. The show NBC created was Saturday Night Live.
JMnQ TIL that in 1990, the US gov’t authorized sending coca eating caterpillars to Peru to fight the drug problem. Their poop is nearly 100% cocaine.
xV8Yw TIL the 1815 eruption of Mt. Tambora was the deadliest volcano ever, causing 90,000 deaths and a 'year without summer'
nedab TIL drowned doesn't mean dead and you could survive underwater for up to 25 minutes