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

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GJk1 TIL that caffeine isn’t a stimulant and it doesn’t ‘give you energy’, rather it blocks the adenosine receptors in your brain - which would normally build up to make you feel tired.
vPyk8 TIL That following his NASA career, Homer Hickam, known for the movie October Sky, about his teenage exploration of rocketry, became a successful dinosaur hunter, and has discovered, or has helped to discover, 5 of the 40 fossilized T-Rex skeletons ever found.
OGkP6 TIL that the assassination of President WilliamMcKinley by Leon Czolgosz in 1901 led to the formation of modern-day Secret Service and also the FBI. In addition, after he was executed by electric chair a month after his trial Czolgosz's coffin was covered in acid so his body would dissolve.
woO8P TIL kids can have two rows of teeth
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982