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TIL when you become blackout drunk it’s not that you forget what happened later on, you were never creating memories to begin with

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ADdLB TIL about the Oka Crisis, when the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, joined by natives from other communities in Canada and the United States, rebelled against an attempt by the local Canadian government to build a golf course over sacred Mohawk land.
4kdk6 TIL: It would take 19 minutes to fall from the pole to the earth's core
rRPge TIL that Elton John was considered for the role of Harold in the 1971 film Harold and Maude. The director also wanted him to do the soundtrack, which ended up being composed by Cat Stevens.
9Yx0m TIL that despite the historical fame of the Rubicon, the river crossed by Julius Caesar, its identity was forgotten for centuries, and even today, we're not 100% sure which river it was.
mxKkM TIL about auto-antonyms, which are words that can have 2 different meanings that are the opposite of each other. (For example, the word bolt, which can mean "to secure together" or "to flee")