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TIL More Intelligent People Are More Likely to Binge Drink and Get Drunk

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JYrO4 TIL the Steel Drum was created in Trinidad and Tobago after the British banned African percussion music and traditional stick-fighting after the Canboulay Riots in 1890. Steel Drums later emerged made from frying pans, dustbin lids, and, of course, oil drums due to the country's oil resources.
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7Z8P TIL that Gary Leon Ridgway stood up in a Seattle court on 5 November, 2003 and admitted 48 counts of aggravated first degree murder, he officially became America’s most prolific serial killer.