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TIL the British are drunk in 76% of their Facebook photos.

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5y7p TIL that during prohibition, the US government ordered poison be added to industrial alcohol to discourage consumption. People continued to drink it, so the government mandated more potent poison and it killed as many as 10,000 people.
ZNjY TIL that Metallica owns the rights to the 1971 anti-war film “Johnny Got His Gun.” They bought them because they got tired of paying royalties every time the music video for their song “One” (which uses clips from the film) played.
LQmQQ Today I learned that in chariot racing women were allowed to win races through property, although there was a ban on married women participating as competitors or even spectators in the Olympics, supposedly under penalty of death.
p84ne TIL as a play on the copyright infringement common in the former Soviet Union, the packaging of Borat's DVD mimics a foreign bootleg DVD. The slipcover is in English but with an all-Cyrillic text and is made to look poorly photocopied. The disc is a parody on Memorex in the form of Demorez DVD-R.
7rpZb TIL about "one of the biggest companies you've never heard of". Acxiom gathers information on some 700 m people, with up to 1,500 data points per person, for ultra targeted marketing. Down to the list of people who buy particular brands of cereal in your local supermarket.