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TIL there are such things as “functional addicts”–people who rely on stimulants such as meth to juggle their multiple jobs and responsibilities

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m1vkY TIL that paprika is just ground red bell peppers.
9WoQ TIL before WWII Henry Ford sent thousands of US workers to Soviet Union in order to establish a Ford licenced factory. The project was a huge disaster and the workers were abandoned by Ford and the US government. Most of them died in Soviet gulags, less than a hundred ever came back.
oBkyY TIL the New York City Blackout of 1977 helped ignite the Hip-Hop scene. Prior to the outage, there was only a handful of DJ’s in the area, which was suffering economically. After, there were over a 1000 DJ’s due to people looting the music equipment stores during the blackout. Hip-hop had exploded.
6eVm TIL the first movie about the Titanic was released a month after its sinking, and starred one of its survivors
Y7VKB TIL about Robert Liston, a British surgeon noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anesthetics. His most famous case involved a leg amputation that took 2 1/2 minutes, and resulted in the amputation of his assistant's fingers and the coat tails of a surgical spectator.