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TIL that China banned Multi-level marketing in 1998

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dK4r TIL that use of handguns in crime rose by 40% in the two years after they were banned in the UK
4k8ao TIL Harland Sanders, founder of KFC, was excelling at cooking by age 7. When he was 6, his father died, and his mother had to go to work at a canning factory for days at a time, requiring Sanders to care for his two younger siblings, including the family cooking.
6EpA7 TIL that high school and college sports are a thing unique to the US and a few other countries. In most countries, people who want to play sports join local clubs.
X0wrj TIL that the Doomsday clock was set to 90 seconds to midnight in 2023 and remains that way today. This is closer than any time during the cold war.
nap7 TIL A man tried to commit suicide by shooting himself in the head because of his severe OCD. But, the bullet didn’t kill him and destroyed the part of his brain that was responsible for his OCD. He then became an honors student at college five years later.