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TIL cocaine addiction treatment is 7 times more effective in reducing cocaine consumption than law enforcement.

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9MNQ TIL that “the best-selling Playboy edition was the November 1972 edition, which sold 7,161,561 copies. One-quarter of all American college men were buying the magazine every month.”
x60go TIL 60 individuals were killed while running for political office in the 2024 Mexican General and Local elections - Mexican President Obrador claimed only 6 were assasinated
OGD1Y TIL the first tests for Kevlar in bulletproof vests was done on goats. After 24 hours, one died. The rest had non-life threatening wounds.
r8D1 TIL in 1975 a cat was listed as co-author on a physics paper because the author had incorrectly used the royal “we” throughout the paper and didn’t want to typewrite the whole thing again
MeEQK TIL that outside of the West Coast, the US government has identified Tennessee and Missouri as the most at risk for a catastrophic earthquake. A 2009 study predicted 7.2 million people displaced, 715k buildings damaged and 86k casualties.