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TIL that Red Bull recommends that the drink should not be mixed with alcohol. It’s even printed on the can.

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4XjbX TIL of Ido Kedar, an autistic man whose disorder manifests as inability to speak and impulsive movements. Using computers, he managed to communicate despite beliefs that autists like him lack intelligence to do so. He seeks to combat said misconception through authorship and talks.
R9vQ TIL a woman spent 12 years in a Kansas mental institution against her will after being diagnosed as a schizophrenic because they assumed she was mentally ill and speaking gibberish. She was really Tarahumara Indian from Mexico who spoke a rare dialect.
MLX0 TIL: For over a decade Sen. John McCain has been trying to get a presidential posthumous pardon for black boxer Jack Johnson, who in 1912 was imprisoned for transporting a white girlfriend across state lines.
KOPjw TIL that Japan's All Nippon Airways is now asking passengers on select flights to empty their bladders before boarding.If all 216 passengers on an ANA Boeing 767 had pretty full bladders, that extra urine would weigh about 240 pounds.
neeGG According to satellite observations, it occurs more often over land than over the oceans. And lightning seems to happen more often closer to the equator.