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TIL that in California, stripclubs are not allowed to serve alcohol if they display fully nude dancers.

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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"
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