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TIL LSD has been shown to treat alcoholism five times more effectively than Alcoholics Anonymous.

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nry7 TIL that workers in the UK can’t be forced to work over 48 hours a week unless they have opted out of this restriction.
oBY5W TIL Bill Withers was the youngest of 6 in West Virginia, his coal miner father died when he was 13 and he was almost 30 he ‘finally got around to’ pursuing music professionally.
bNjj TIL in 2014 Budweiser attempted to trademark the sound of a beer can opening
newMB TIL some states/cities consider it ownership to feed stray animals. They have laws which state if you feed strays, you are acting in responsibility for it as an owner. As a result, you're held legally liable for the animal's behavior (attacks) and liable for its medical needs (shots and checkups).
lgm7 TIL in 1925, Henry Ford told the NYT that ethyl alcohol is “the fuel of the future”. There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There’s enough alcohol in one year’s yield of an acre of potatoes to drive the machinery necessary to cultivate the fields for a hundred years.“