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TIL there exists a practice called Flashblooding, where drug addicts inject themselves with other addicts blood to attempt to keep a high going.

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LQW50 TIL that in 60+ years of human spaceflight, only 675 people have been in space(by the USAF definition of flying at least 50 miles or 80 kilometres high)
GY08j TIL that after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the country code top-level domain for Montenegro officially changed in 2007 from .yu to .me.
GOJQ TIL of the “idiot plot”. The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as “[a]ny plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots”.
PBxE TIL AT&T secretly sells customer data to law enforcement and keeps information like call time, duration, and even location data on file for years.
LkNDV TIL The Beatles ended stadium segregation in the Deep South by refusing to perform in Gator Bowl stadium (Jacksonville, Florida). The City relented and because of that defiance, many black concert-goers were publicly among white people for the very first time.