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TIL that several states have ruled Breathalyzer machines inadmissible as evidence in prosecution due to them being unreliable, improperly calibrated, etc. This has been a multi year/decade problem and people knew. The manufacturers also are shady.

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D18wJ TIL: One of the founding fathers died from sticking a whalebone up his peehole.
kGAe TIL the producer of the song “I put a spell on you” brought in ribs and chicken and got everybody drunk. Then went on to say “… I don’t even remember making the record.”
VBKa8 TIL that there is a legend that the rising sun shines through the two-mile long Victorian railway tunnel in England on the designer's birthday, April 9th.
Q0VL TIL that there is a ranch in Texas bigger than the state of Rhode Island
DVGe TIL that, as she was fleeing indigenous North Americans, Leif Erikson’s half-sister drew a dead man’s sword, slashed one of her exposed breasts, and frightened her pursuers away