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TIL low-fat chocolate milk was a better rehydrating athletes than common sports drinks

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JY1NB TIL Beer or wine is not safer to drink than liquor. One 250 ml beer has about the same amount of alcohol as one 100 ml glass of wine, or 30 ml distilled spirit. It is the amount of alcohol consumed that affects a person most, not the type of alcoholic drink
6E7dZ TIL In Japan in 1968, 4 bank employees were transporting 300M¥ in the trunk of a car. They were stopped by a young police officer, who claimed dynamite was on the car. When he crawled under to check and smoke came billowing out, they ran away. The “officer” then got in the car and drove away.
dDA9E TIL a super-volcanic eruption in Indonesia caused a "Year Without Summer" in Europe and Eastern USA in 1816. This indirectly led to the invention of the bicycle, the writing of Frankenstein and Mormonism.
1aXMr TIL of Betty Ong, a flight attendant aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Ong notified the American Airlines ground crew of the hijacking, staying on the telephone for 25 minutes and relaying vital information that eventually led to the closing of airspace by the FAA for the first time in history.
b9r87 TIL that sign language has its own grammatical system