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TIL that some people have been recorded and survived having a blood alcohol content over 1.00%.

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4kJZw TIL the Toilet Snorkel aka. "Fresh Air Breathing Device" was meant to improve fire safety in the 80s.
Y7XRZ TIL of Hannah Beswick; who was so afraid of being buried alive that she paid her physician to be kept above ground and be provisionally checked for signs of life after she died. She was finally buried 110 years after her death, being declared "irrevocably and unmistakably dead"
KXrw TIL that there are actually five Dwarf Planets in our Solar System.
bmXp TIL Abraham Lincoln used to tell a long joke about a man carving a turkey at a fancy party who puts so much force into the effort that he rips a huge fart in front of everyone
xVQ10 TIL In 1803, a group of Japanese fishermen encountered a strange boat containing a young woman described as beautiful and strange. She had red eyebrows, about 18 or 20 years old, at a height of 1.5 meters, with pale skin and red hair. The frightened fishermen returned her to the sea