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TIL in 1998 40% of antibiotics in the United States went to livestock. By 2011 that had risen to 80%.

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d8oj7 TIL in 1970, an LSD group called the Brotherhood dropped 25,000 doses of LSD on revelers attending a three day Birthday Party for Jeaus Christ in Laguna Beach
gMy1X TIL: The amount of radioactive cesium that was leaked from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster is about equal to 168 of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima at the end of World War II.
xVA57 TIL Wesley Snipes led cops in Florida on a 120mph chase on his Kawasaki 1100 before crashing it and got caught/fined for carrying a concealed handgun in California without a concealed carry permit after crashing another bike.
MeEJa TIL, during the great depression construction of New Zealand's govt building was halted resulting in there only being half a building. In the 1980's it was finally extended with a building called the Beehive, which resembles a Beehive.
7rN5O TIL about the Mere-Exposure Effect, a phenomenon in which people tend to develop preferences for stimuli that are familiar or constantly presented. Stimuli can be people, visuals, words, sounds, etc., and influence interpersonal relationships and advertising.