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TIL Grenadine is pomegranate flavored, not cherry flavored

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4Grb TIL David Bowie could barely perform his broadway show in NY, The Elephant Man, the day after John Lennon was shot because there were three empty seats in the front row. Two belonged to John and Yoko. The third was Mark David Chapman’s, Lennon’s killer. Bowie was suppose to be next on his list.
6n9Y TIL That the IRS has tax rules about how to claim your child as a dependent if they have been kidnapped.
d8ApK TIL about Re:scam, an AI made to keep infinitely asking questions to scammers to make them lose time. Re:scam has made scammers lose 5 years answering pointless emails.
PoBZ TIL a study showed a shocking 29% increase in drug usage and a 34% increase in tobacco usage among students participating in DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) in America
gMlDy TIL In 1944, a Finnish soldier escaping the Russian Army took 30x the dosage of methamphetamines designed to keep soldiers awake. He managed to ski 250 miles surviving on only a raw bird and some pine buds, and when he got to hospital a week later his heart rate was 200BPM.