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TIL The Florida Public Service Commission gave Cape Canaveral the 321 area code as an homage to their launching spacecrafts. 3…2…1… Blastoff!

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vbdB TIL that on the last week of 2002, Dave Grohl had 3 singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with 3 different bands: “All My Life” by Foo Fighters (as guitarist and frontman), “No One Knows” by Queens of the Stone Age and “You Know You’re Right” by Nirvana (both as drummer).
ddbQ TIL the highest ever BAC level ever recorded was 0.94%. The average level needed to cause death is 0.34%.
X0p8Q TIL that sex verification in elite sports was tried via chromosomal testing. It was abandoned by the IOC in 1999 after athletes' chromosome results not aligning with their assigned sex.
WkY1N TIL The Battle of the Somme ended with roughly 420,000 British, 200,000 French, and 500,000 German casualties, the result of the 141-day battle was the British frontline moving just 6 miles into German territory.
mxdjo TIL the city of Portland, OR once drained a 38 million gallon reservoir because a man peed in it.