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TIL taking Benadryl causes cognitive impairment equivalent to a BAC of 0.1%, over the legal limit to drive.

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MBg8 TIL due to name confusion, the staff of Slovak and Slovenian embassies meet once a month to exchange wrongly-addressed mail.
9wWm TIL: In Churchill, Manitoba residents leave car doors open so passing people can jump in the presence of a polar bear.
new67 TIL that the escape routes that prominent Nazi war criminals used after WWII to flee to South America were set up and supported by the Catholic Church
9w8BM TIL medieval European scholars believed the Southern Hemisphere couldn't be habitable because they thought the Equator was too hot to cross, making places south of it unreachable by evangelists, and since Jesus told the apostles to "evangelize all mankind", unreachable people couldn't exist.
YpM7v Today I learned Willie Nelson has played the same guitar,“Trigger” for 50 years. It has been signed by friends, family, lawyers, and Johnny Cash. It was his last remaining possession twice. Willie has played it at over 10,000 shows and he gets it repaired every year at the same shop in Austin,TX