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TIL guys stationed at my base have been using a prosthetic pp to beat the military urinalysis program, the Navy drug deterrence lab has now sent us updated guidance that says observers have to make test takers lift their shirt and drop their pants/undies below knees. Get ready for butters pee test.

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8a0e8 TIL about the real-life Lord of the Flies, i.e. what happened when six teenage boys were shipwrecked on a deserted island for 15 months
VaLZ TIL Portland, OR has the most strip clubs per capita, 8.86 clubs per 100,000 people. This is because the Oregon constitution says: No law shall be passed restraining the free expression of opinion, or restricting the right to speak, write or print freely on any subject whatever.
51Gn TIL after seeing Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin sent Jack Gleeson (the actor who plays Joffrey) a personal letter stating “Congratulations on your marvelous performance, everyone hates you.”
VMJxD TIL Britain ended Capital Punishment after the unjust execution of Timothy Evans, for the murders of his wife and daughter. He'd accused his neighbour John Christie of the crime. Years later, Christie was discovered to be a serial killer who had killed 6 other woman and Evans's wife and daughter.
OGYO4 TIL that in the 1960s, the US roasted a 1440-acre swath of Wisconsin forest with ~10,000 curies of radiation for 6 months in order to determine how it affected the area. Most of the damage was confined to the area directly adjacent to the source, and the area is completely non-hazardous today.