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TIL that Andrew Johnson Was Drunk During His Inauguration.

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gM8w7 TIL about the "male idiot theory", where men are more likely to engage in risky behaviour without any apparent payoff.
e0Gwg TIL of the 1980 book "Michelle Remembers", which sold millions of copies and spurred the Satanic panic of that era. Oprah even had the two authors on her show and presented their accounts of satanic abuse as pure fact. The book was later discredited.
1ag1O TIL Most foods are safely consumable 2-3 years past their expiration date as the FDA has no regulation of these numbers. It's estimated that 40% of all the annual food waste in the USA is able to be healthily consumed.
1aBd8 TIL pistol deuling was an event in the 1908 Olympics, in which competitors would fire wax bullets at one another.
WWXA TIL When Britain changed the packaging for Tylenol to blister packs instead of bottles, suicide deaths from Tylenol overdoses declined by 43 percent. Anyone who wanted 50 pills would have to push out the pills one by one but pills in bottles can be easily dumped out and swallowed.