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TIL the highest ever BAC level ever recorded was 0.94%. The average level needed to cause death is 0.34%.

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nWLAW TIL that Dr. Maya Angelou recorded an album of duets with Jessica Mitford's cowbell and kazoo band Decca and the Dectones, Jessica Mitford being the author of “The American Way of Death” and the younger sister of Adolf Hitler's girlfriend Unity Mitford.
gL5D TIL that most of the meat in burger adverts is raw and that they paint it with food coloring and go through tonnes of other ingredients and techniques, just to get that perfect looking burger
Yd8Z TIL In Britain, an employer cannot give a subjective bad reference as they can be sued for libel or defamation of character. Any negative remarks must be defendable in a court of law, which is why employers will usually opt to say nothing instead.
PXve TIL that the original plan for Jurassic World was to have hybrid human-dinosaur mercenaries (check out the disturbing concept art)
ykAJ TIL Laser Tag was actually military combat training before it was commercial recreation