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TIL that Mississippi is the only state to allow drivers to drink alcohol while operating a motor vehicle. It is permitted as long as the driver's blood alcohol content stays below the state’s legal limit of 0.08%.

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dWQd TIL that under current South Korean laws if war breaks out South Korea doesn’t want to control its own military instead it wants the Americans to tell them what to do
EvZ7 TIL: In Songdo, South Korea, there are no rubbish trucks, instead the household waste is sucked directly from individual kitchens, through a network of underground pipes to waste processing centres.
Egv8w Today I Learned.In Taiwan (which uses Chinese as the official language), they do not use the Romanization system, they teach an additional "注音符號" (Zhuyin Fuhao). It consists of 37 characters and five tone marks, which together can transcribe all possible sounds in Mandarin Chinese.
VMjoQ Til that British spies once tried putting female hormones in Hitler's food in order to feminize Hitler and "Make him less aggressive, and more docile- akin to his sister."
DQ9Rv TIL there are only 15 trademarked scents in the U.S., Play-Doh being one of them.