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TIL Alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to experience withdrawal from

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Kg56 TIL that purple paint on fences and trees means no trespassing in many states
xoPo TIL Carbon Monoxide is used in the USA to make meat appear fresher. This practise is banned in Canada, Japan, Singapore, and the European Union.
e0jx6 TIL that, in violation of its own non-segregation policy, the U.S. military secretly complied until the 1980s with Iceland's request that black American soldiers not be stationed in Iceland
mxPkx TIL that Johnny Carson caused a nationwide toilet paper shortage in 1973 by claiming on national TV that there was a toilet paper shortage.
M7y4a TIL - 50 years ago the first F-16 flew accidentally after a runway test went wrong and the pilot thought "Let it fly away."