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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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Z80WQ TIL during WWII, Soviet POWs in Germany faced far worse treatment than any other nation with 60% chance of dying. In comparison, British POWs held by Japanese and German had respectively 25% and 3% chance of dying.
d8rr8 TIL The Bee Gees were going to lip sync to a record in the local Gaumont cinema, but as they were running to the theatre, the fragile shellac 78-RPM record broke. The brothers had to sing live and received such a positive response from the audience that they decided to pursue a singing career.
Y7a4W Today I learned that Druids gathered Mistletoe using Golden Sickles
R5pw8 TIL that Yakov Novichenko was a Soviet officer who saved Kim Il Sung from an assassination attempt in 1946 and thus became the only non-Korean to develop a cult of personality in North Korea.
KYbKB TIL Ocracoke has a dialect similar to Elizabethan English. Sadly it’s almost extinct.