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TIL Alcohol can actually be "smoked" -- or, more accurately, vaped -- so you can get drunk through your lungs, instead of the mouth or booty.

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8aeXP TIL of the "Bucket of Crabs" mentality. It is best expressed as "if I can't have it, neither can you." This is because any crab could get out of the bucket, but they prevent each other from escaping instead of focusing on it.
GD4J TIL that Al Gore’s documentary, ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, was held by the British High Court to have nine errors in it, and cannot be shown in schools unless teachers point out the potentially problematic sections.
kOprm TIL that the poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Algernon Swinburne, TS Eliot, and Robert Lowell were all direct descendants of King Henry III.
lobr TIL the swedish former physical education teacher Richard Juhlin has the best nose for wine (champagne specifically) and in a now infamous blind tasting in 2003, arranged by Spectacle du Monde, he correctly identified 43 of 50 wines. The one who came in second correctly identified four.
nWvR9 TIL there's another unit to measure temperature, the Rankine scale (°R)