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A sleepless night is the cognitive equivalent of being legally drunk.

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8Ybb TIL that Winston Churchill claims that Jordan’s zigzagging border was partly due to the fact that he mapped them out drunk
xD4b TIL President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that created an exemption from taxation of beer brewed at home for personal or family use. Opening the door for today’s craft beer brewers.
VMwJp TIL that people who believe Osama Bin Laden is still alive are more likely than most to believe Osama Bin Laden was already dead before the raid. Believing a conspiracy theory makes you more likely to believe other conspiracy theories, even if they are directly contradictory.
ADVJa TIL The original name of the Grateful Dead was the Warlocks. They changed their name when they realized there was another band with the same name. That other band later changed their name to... The Velvet Underground.
07BR TIL a man was cured of HIV in Germany via a bone marrow transplant from a donor whose gene mutation made him immune to HIV. That gene is relatively common in N. Europe. Researchers have speculated that the gene is the result of natural selection during diseases similar to small pox or Black Death