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TIL that the fatality rate among hard drug users is 14 times higher than for the general population

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1bWO TIL that WinCo, a grocery store in the western U.S. not only undercuts Walmart on prices, but is employee owned, offers health benefits, and a pension plan for their employees.
69Kn8 TIL The tendency to using one hand over the other was thought to be unique to humans until recently. In reality, even animals that don't have hands, like mice or fish, display handedness. Among great apes, 65% of chimps are right handed, same as 75% of Gorillas, but 66% of Orangutans are lefties
M74LK TIL The Diderot Effect which states that obtaining a new possession often creates a spiral of consumption which leads you to acquire more new things. As a result, we end up buying things that our previous selves never needed to feel happy or fulfilled.
XrXj TIL that human meat tastes like veal and a person would not be able to distinguish it from veal.
RZv7 TIL when he became President Eisenhower allowed his son to serve in the Korean war only on one condition: that he promise never be captured alive