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TIL that when numbers are written in a spiral, prime numbers appear along diagonal lines.

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m1PkE TIL during the 1920 trial of Elmer Fisher for the illegal ownership of alcohol, the jury took 1 of the bottles submitted as evidence when they went to deliberate to make sure that it was whiskey. After some time passed, the jury asked for a 2nd bottle. A short time later, it found Fisher not guilty.
Vrp4 TIL that starting in 1988, the Harvard Medical School partnered with film and TV studios to insert the concept of the “Designated Driver” into popular consciousness. The project was a huge success.
9Jv7 TIL that the phrase “Luck of the Irish” originally ‘carried with it a certain tone of derision, as if to say, only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed.’
1mBP TIL that 46 years ago today, a NYPD Officer was shot in the face during a drug raid and the officers officers with him refused to make the call to the dispatcher indicating an officer was shot
PXMV TIL that in the 1950’s, CIA members feared being unknowingly dosed by LSD as it had become “something of an occupational hazard.”