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TIL that in Denmark, they assess fines for drunk driving as follows: (blood alchohol percentage) x 10 x (monthly salary).

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P1nNG TIL ‘sacred’ cats in Ancient Egypt were routinely drowned as kittens or had their spines broken to be used as sacrifices and agricultural fertilizer
vjE4 TIL That there is a website called worldometers which updates various statistics such as births, deaths, economic expenditure and CO2 emissions (as well as much more) in real time.
gMaJ8 TIL in 1987, a passenger hijacked a plane from LAX to SFO. The flight attendant alerted the pilot, "We have a problem!". The pilot asked "What kind of problem?" The hijacker then shot the flight attendant dead & announced "I'm the problem", before killing both pilots and crashing the plane
JYQj1 TIL that holding in a sneeze could technically cause a fatal brain aneurysm.
R7R64 The first modern crematory was built in the U.S. in 1876. A second came eight years later. By 1900, there were 20. The practice got another boost in 1963 when the Catholic Church reversed its opinion on cremation during the Vatican II reforms and said cremation was permitted (though ash scattering was not). Four decades ago, less than 5 percent of American were cremated when they died. Now that figure stands at nearly half.