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TIL the disco song “freak out”, was originally titled “Fuck Off”

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N787b TIL there is a town in Wisconsin called Random Lake. It contains a lake called Random Lake.
Ypnmv TIL in 2006 the Space Integration Branch of the U.S. Marine Corps in Arlington, VA began developing sub-orbital spaceships to move troops anywhere on the planet in under two hours. Marine Colonel Jack Wassink expects the first prototype to be ready in 2021.
dBKE TIL that “nearly 88,000 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making alcohol the fourth leading preventable cause of death in the United States.”
ymQp TIL that Olympians are now allowed a modest amount of THC in blood tests. In May 2013, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) raised the in-competition threshold for marijuana tenfold, to 150 ng/ml, meaning that an athlete would have to be a “pretty dedicated cannabis consumer” to test positive.