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TIL forensic scientists have said that around 80% of all British banknotes contain traces of drugs. A 1999 study found even higher levels of contamination in the London area; of 500 notes tested, only four had no traces of cocaine.

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JYeo1 TIL Nearly 70% of icelanders has costco membership and there's only one costco in the country
8e7RX TIL that the echidna urethra starts as a single tube, but toward the end of the penis it splits into two and each of these then splits again – resulting in each of the four branches ending up at one of the four glans.
awrnL TIL That there is a monument in Russia dedicated to lab mice who's lives have been sacrificed to further science: The Monument to the Laboratory Mouse
KZrE TIL that a man was rejected by the New London, CT Police Dept. for scoring too high on a basic intelligence test in 1996. He sued, and the US Dist. Court ruled that police departments can in fact disallow intelligent applicants.
N71ne TIL about Cognitive Bias, which is is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. People create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input. An individual's construction of reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the world.