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TIL a drug was developed in the 1970s that increases long term memory as much as 152%

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D1Eov TIL The FBI spent years investigating an anti-goth cult that didn’t even exist.Official investigation on ‘Church of the Hammer’ and their Yahoo group ‘GodHatesGoths', continued for over 2 years before they realized the entire thing was completely fake and intended to be a joke.
awmK9 TIL about the Arbëreshë people, an ethnic albanian minority in Italy who came escaping the Ottoman conquest of Albania between 700 and 300 years ago
j6EVQ TIL that, in 1898, due to the closure of the Fleetwood Park Racetrack due to being sold to real estate developers, New York City officials considered building a new harness horse racetrack in Central Park. The city approved plans for a Central Park racetrack, but built it on unused land instead.
BgvBD TIL I learned the CIA directly influences the production of movies and Hollywood since 1946
WkwOo TIL 3–15% of alcoholics commit suicide, and over 50% of all suicides are associated with alcohol or drug dependence, due to alcohol causing physiological distortion of brain chemistry, as well as social isolation.