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TIL the highest BAC every recorded is 1.480%…and the guy was driving

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4kAba TIL that a law student at The University Of Malaga in Spain attempted to cheat on his exams with 11 BIC pens that had the answers etched on them.
W7OR9 TIL The last "Civil War Widow," Helen Viola Jackson, lived until 2020. Jackson was married to James Bolin, a 93-year-old Civil War veteran, at the age of seventeen and died just four years ago at the age of 101.
veW8 TIL that the airport security question “Did you pack your bags yourself?” became mandatory thanks to an Irish girl named Anne-Marie Murphy whose bags were packed with by her terrorist boyfriend.
VMNQk TIL Harry Houdini hired H. P. Lovecraft and his friend C. M. Eddy, Jr., to write an entire book about debunking religious miracles, which was called “The Cancer of Superstition”.
e0dXb TIL Thanks to a Swedish tax law regarding costumes, ABBA’s stage clothes were outlandishly-designed on purpose. As long as they were impractical for everyday wear, the group’s outfits were tax-deductible.