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TIL The Earth Is Running Out of Sand, Spurring a Cutthroat Black Market

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p8yL4 TIL the US banned the publication of a large global study done by the World Health Organization in 1995 on cocaine use. Excerpts from the report conflicted with accepted views such as "occasional cocaine use does not typically lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems"
x67D0 TIL 38yo Jerry Seinfeld met a 17yo high school student in a park & groomed her into a reromantic relationship that was public knowledge.
yVJlX TIL that 13% of the U.S. Population consumes pizza on any given day. The percentage is 25% among males aged 6-19
8mA8 TIL a 2007 lawsuit against GM could have brought deadly ignition switch failures to light — but the case was not pursued since Wisconsin law limits liability to $350,000 per death. GM issued a recall 7 years later, and paid $1.475 billion in fines and settlements.
9DMM TIL that the real reason the ocean is salty is because the entire volume of the ocean is going inside the earth into magma chambers and out, every 6-8 million years, where it exchanges minerals it got from rivers, and we did not know this until 1979.