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TIL that Chain-smoking is referred to smoking continously by lighting a new cigarette from the stub of the last one smoked.

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GYg4E TIL that the 1st overall draft pick in the inaugural NFL draft ultimately decided not to play in the NFL, rejecting offers from two teams, to ultimately work for a rubber company
KYG84 TIL that Tornadoes in the Southern Hemisphere rotate clockwise, while tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere rotate counterclockwise.
4k8Nw TIL that Ethiopia has a unique calendar which is 7-8 years behind the rest of the world. The current year in Ethiopia is 2014.
VBKok TIL that daylight savings time has its own timezones and DST observing places must make a conversion for schedules notated in standard time in spring/summer of the same “zone”.
KO7WB TIL one of the cofounders of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill W., asked for whiskey on his death bed, but was denied and died 36 years sober.