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TIL in 1929 the US supreme court voted 8 -1 in favor a Euginics program requiring forced sterilization of citizens deemed not smart enough to reproduce

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mxONR TIL William Leonard Pickard, manufacturer of more than 90% of the world's LSD supply in the '90s, predicted the Fentanyl crisis 20 years prior to it happening.
xVXyo TIL About the "Candy Bombers" who in addition to provided air drops of food to starving people in Berlin during the Soviet blockade also dropped candy for the children. An act that continues today during food drops.
QNRnL TIL that prisoners in a Russian penal colony near Moscow used a cat to smuggle drugs. The cat was found with 5.79 grams of hashish and 1.56 grams of amphetamine hidden under its collar. Both the defense and prosecution lawyers wanted to use the cat as evidence to support their cases.
Q9EX TIL Water flow and electricity are analogous to each other. Voltage = water pressure, Amperage = flow rate of water
lxK1 TIL that during WWII, Oak Ridge TN, population 75,000, used 1/7 of all US electricity to process uranium for the atomic bomb.