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TIL Out of eleven cases of blood alcohol content higher than 1%, Poland holds five

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ZpedD TIL that in 2012, a group of British students edited the Wikpedia article about electric toasters and inserted the false claim that a man named Alan MacMasters invented the toaster in 1893. The fake article was cited by newspapers and other organizations until the hoax was exposed in July 2022.
xVOXD TIL that Darsheel Safary, the child artist of the film Taare Zameen Par, had to face a lot of opposition from his school that he would have to miss school for such a long period. Then Aamir khan actor of the film funded his studies as well as his educational expenses.
WDVX TIL that even if all non-violent drug offenders were released from federal and state prisons the United States would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world
d8Bw7 TIL Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, believed the World War was bound to happen, independent of his actions. Chained to a wall in solitary confinement at the Terezín fortress, he died in 1918 weighing around 40kg from malnutrition and disease.
PYjlg TIL: The boomerang kid from Mad Max still has the boomerang.