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TIL that people in sotland have 421 words for snow!

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oBwP7 TIL California Rocket Fuel is a slang term used by the psychiatric community that refers to a combined treatment with Mirtazapine and anti-depressant. In many cases, people given this combination notice a rapid improvement in their depressive symptoms.
rPEW TIL US government conscripted mentally and physically unfit soldiers for Vietnam war to avoid backlash from conscripting students
woyg8 TIL that serial killer Joseph Paul Franklin’s spree from 1977-1980 which would claim the lives of 21 people, was financed in part by blood bank donations.
mEwv TIL:GM knew alcohol was the best anti-knock additive for gasoline before the invention of lead additives. They purposely used a poison instead, because alcohol was cheap and could not be patented.
RKAa TIL There is a man who digs up antique denim left in old abandoned silver mines. When a miner got a new pair of work pants, he’d cut up the old ones and use them for lagging around pipes. Collectors pay thousands of dollars for jeans, jackets and even scraps of denim