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TIL a 61-year-old Texas home brewer came into an emergency room completely hammered with a 0.37% BAC, claiming that he hadn’t had a sip of booze. Turns out the yeast in his stomach fermented sugars from the food he was eating into ethanol.

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vVM8 TIL while in prison Al Capone cut in line, so a bank robber named James Lucas held scissors to his neck, responding to Al Capone’s threats of “do you know who I am” with “if you don’t get back to the end of that fucking line, I’m gonna know who you were”
9wLAQ TIL: Lawyer Andrew G. Haley was the world's first practitioner of Space Law. He was was pivotal in founding the International Institute of Space Law which provides guidelines on how the law should apply to space and extraterrestrial beings. He died in 1966, 3 years before the moon landing.
e6rL TIL two people, the pilot and passenger of a private plane, in Ocala, FL died while trying to have sex in flight. They were nominated for a Darwin Award in 1994.
rNdP4 TIL in 1920, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers met to try to find a way to measure power in a 3 or more phase electrical system. They did not reach a consensus until 1993.
Ky7G TIL that salting fresh pineapple reduces the “acid burn” effect you get after eating too much of it (and it makes the pineapple taste sweeter)