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TIL: The DEA claims that methamphetamine and cocaine is less harmful than LSD and Marijuana

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R7L86 TIL: The British nuclear fuel processing plant Sellafield is so contaminated that pigeons that roosted there and pooped in someone's garden, polluted the garden so much the garden had to be dug up and treated as nuclear waste.
nWnr7 TIL that Sylvester Stallone directed the Saturday Night Live sequel "Staying Alive" that has Travolta's character following his dream of professional dancing and having flopped to the point that it's currently on Rotten Tomatoes 0% list.
JYpAV TIL about the Banach–Tarski Paradox where mathematically it is possible to split an object in to multiple parts and recombine them into two exact copies of the original without adding new material.
dDM7K TIL you can in fact die of a ‘broken heart.’
mNPP TIL: NASA has made hundreds of thousands of technical reports covering technology, research, and science available through a free and searchable archive on the Internet.