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TIL Auto Brewery Syndrome is a real condition in which carbohydrates are converted into alcohol and makes you permanently drunk

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GOwE TIL that there is a 17-percent increase in traffic fatalities on the Monday after clocks spring forward
pY7KA TIL it is nearly impossible to knock someone out with a Chloroform-soaked rag as someone needs to inhale it for at least 5 minutes, and a continous volume must be administered to keep them unconscious
lL0B TIL In the early nineties, actor Ving Rhames (aka Marcellus Wallace) met a homeless man who turned out to be his older brother who had been lost to his family since Vietnam
79X TIL that unlike chess, professional go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers
6PmJ TIL there exists a mysterious fruit-tree species in Arkansas discovered by science in 1990, who is only the second of its kind, with its closest relative being in Europe. It exists only in a 22 acre area, there are only 25 trees left of its kind and no one knows where it came from.