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Exactly today (Dec. 26th, 2016) I haven’t had a single drop of alcohol or coffee in 27 months. If you're reading this later, you can do the math yourself. A couple of my friends on Facebook & Twitter asked me to write about my experience, so here it is, in a nutshell.

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mRny TIL when cats look you in the eye and blink slowly, they’re trying to tell you they love you
rRwVe TIL PayPal accidentally credited a man $92 quadrillion (the money was quickly removed). He was the richest man for two minutes.
YpOB7 TIL of Eliahu Itzkovitz. A Romanian jew who after witnessing the murder of his family at the hands of a guard in a concentration camp joined the IDF, murdered the guards son and ultimately tracked and killed the guard himself.
b9W8N TIL that during the filming of the Sound of Music, the city of Salzburg refused to allow Nazi flags to be hung off buildings for filming. The director threatened to instead use real newsreel footage of the city enthusiastically greeting Hitler. The city quickly backpedalled and allowed the shot.
e804 TIL plastic-wrapped American cheese slices aren’t slices at all and are actually put on the plastic as a warm blob that’s flattened into a slice shape as it cools.