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TIL An 18-year-old man tried to eat his underwear in the hope that the cotton fabric would absorb alcohol before he took a breathalyzer test.

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aw810 TIL That the stormtrooper who hit his head on the door in the original Star Wars was also the stormtrooper who got mind tricked with “these are not the droids you’re looking for”. His name is Wanten.
rR17y TIL In 2012, Pitbull was involved in an advertising campaign with Walmart, in which the Walmart store that received the most Facebook "likes", would have Pitbull visit and put on a show there. An orchestrated campaign for him to end up in Kodiak, Alaska was successful.
RaD8 TIL There’s a thing called “Rubber duck debugging” in which a programmer explains the code to an inanimate object in hopes of finding the bug
b69A0 TIL Plankton can refer to microscopic organisms that live in the air as well as the ocean
eyxk TIL that it is near impossible to incapacitate someone with chloroform against their will. It would tak nearly 5 minutes of constant inhanling to render a target incapacitated.