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TIL That in Finland they sit around at home in their underwear and get "Pantsdrunk" - it's in the book "1001 Reasons to Stop Drinking" which is packed with enough "TIL's" to add a new one here every day!

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4kvp6 TIL: The female vocals on the Rolling Stones' iconic "Gimme Shelter" were performed by a 4-months-pregnant Merry Clayton wearing pajamas and curlers in her hair because of the late hour at which she was unexpectedly brought into the recording studio.
plr4 TIL that emergency and city transit vehicles have an infrared emitter to forcibly change traffic lights.
p86de TIL Classical Greece wasn't filled with pure white marble everything. The statues and ruins we see today were actually painted in all kinds of vivid colors that were just stripped bare back to their original white marble by time.
LoYv TIL that the OSS director once showcased the then newly invented gun silencer to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by shooting 10 rounds at a sandbag in the oval office without Roosevelt noticing, and then handing him the smoking gun.
ZYxB TIL that during the Vietnam war, Navy Seal teams One and Two amassed a combined kill/death ratio of 200:1