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TIL Washington State allows you to give your kids alcohol as long as they consume it in front of you (Subsection 3)

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b9Bo7 TIL that when Niels Bohr escaped from Denmark, he was smuggled out in the bomb bay of a Mosquito bomber. Because he didn't wear his helmet, he didn't hear the pilot instructing him to put on his mask, causing him to pass out from oxygen starvation for most of the flight.
E1vL7 TIL that "Thrilla in Manila" was not fought in Manila, it was fought in Quezon City. The phrase was coined from a rhyme that Ali made; "It will be a killa and a thrilla and a chilla, when I get the gorilla in Manila".
R5rP6 TIL about “Madhouse Promenade” which comes from the survival story of RV Belgica in which after battling mental illness from the endless Polar Night, crew members took to walking in a circle around the ice stuck ship.
x6y0g TIL the largest episode of anti-Asian violence in North America took place not in the United States, but in the city of Torreón, Mexico in 1911 when over 300 Mexican citizens of Chinese/Japanese descent were slaughtered by a local mob.
njkd TIL Dogs can be trained to drive specially modified cars, more specifically; Mini Coopers.