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TIL over half of the Alcoholics Anonymous “12 steps” refer to God

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QNlR9 TIL that “Confessions Part II” was Jermaine Dupri’s experience with cheating and getting another woman pregnant, and not Usher’s.
4Xj8o TIL The intensity of sound is measured in decibels (dB), the decibel scale is logarithmic. Basically a 40dB sound is not twice as loud as 20dB one, but a hundred times louder. Also one alarm clock ringing at 70dB, two alarm clocks ringing together don’t hit 140dB on scale but measure 73dB.
x6l9b TIL about the movie “The Program” and a scene where college football players laid in the dividing line of traffic. Groups of teenagers tried to replicate the scene resulting in one death and two injuries. The scene was removed from all further releases of the film
rRAee TIL the old format of 'Wheel of Fortune' in the 1980s took so long to film that hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White would sneak off and have “two or three or six” margaritas before returning to the set, where they would “have trouble recognizing the alphabet”.
b6k47 TIL Ernesto Miranda, namesake of the Miranda warning, was murdered and the person suspected of killing him invoked his Miranda rights and was never charged