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TIL that getting drunk is an effective antidote for antifreeze poisoning

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l7OZ5 TIL that when Fox Sports president David Hill introduced a score bug as part of its NFL coverage, he received a death threat from an irate viewer, with a specific emphasis on him being a "foreigner"
p81oQ TIL of the Greek genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish National Movement in Anatolia (1914-1922) resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Greeks.
W76aL TIL Steven Seagal made a country/blues/reggae album and it’s so much worse than you might imagine. I included a link to a fantastically brutal review from ‘09 when it was released.
kZee TIL in 2005 the Powerball drawing produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The Multi-State Lottery Association thought it was fraud. It turned out the winners simply played the lucky numbers from their Wonton Food fortune cookies. The fortune read “All the preparation you’ve done will finally be paying off.”
xVbbB TIL in 1954, Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev could not get funding to pursue a space program, so he planted a fake new-story claiming Russia was going to launch a satellite. The US responded that they were also going to launch one, so the Soviets then agreed to fund the program.