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TIL Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine) attended Harvard for college, where he won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands with Carolyn Bertozzi, a 2022 Nobel Prize laureate, on keyboards

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DQvEv TIL according to a 1984 case report: a patient survived acute alcohol intoxication with an unprecedented blood alcohol level of 1,500 mg/dL (or 1.5%).
BrxxW TIL that in 2017 someone (the Ukrainian authorities blame Russia) used a drone carrying a thermite grenade to blow up an ammunition dump, setting off a billion dollars worth of explosives.
DQdAr TIL Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started wasn't an original song, but rather a clean version of a song called Let's Get Retarded, also made by them
MV7a TIL there is a plan to elect the US president by popular vote that doesn’t require a constitutional change and it 49% complete.
Ay4d TIL when Genghis Khan died, his army carried his body to his final resting place, killing anyone it met along the way to keep the location a secret