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Vlak TIL there is an antidote for alcohol intoxication that never made it to the market
e0QmE TIL the 1978 space-cadet keyboard had built-in emoji keys
wxEY TIL Thomas Jefferson is accredited as the creator of the swivel chair, the first of which he created and used to write much of the Declaration of Independence.
N7AYE TIL, Ziprider, the world's longest zipline, located in Copper Canyon Mexico, is ~1.5 miles long and lets you travel at a speed of ~85 miles per hour.
v1PZL TIL that in a 1986 poll during the AIDS crisis by the LA Times, 50 percent of adults surveyed supported a quarantine of AIDS patients, 48 percent would approve of identity cards for those who test positive for antibodies causes AIDS and 15 percent favored tattooing AIDS victims.