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TIL Portugal decriminalized prosecuting all drug users in 2001 but those same drugs are still listed as illegal because “Otherwise we would have gotten into trouble with the UN”

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kODjm TIL that while less than 10% of people don't wear a seat belt, they make up almost 50% of car crash fatalities
1aRv8 TIL that British doctors performed a covert study of the length of time chocolates last on nurses' stations in hospitals, published in the British Medical Journal. They found that the 'decay rate' of the chocolates follows an exponential decay pattern with a half-life of 99 minutes.
1em7 TIL of the Emeryville Shellmound, an Ohlone Indian burial site and village occupied from at least 2800 years ago to 400 years ago, which now is contaminated with early industrial waste and paved over with a shopping mall and an Ikea.
64Bl TIL That the US Pentagon wants packs of robots that will hunt down “uncooperative humans”
JYkeB TIL that South African inventor Charl Fourie invented a car-mounted flamethrower in 1998 to deter carjackings. The device was legal in South Africa when used in self-defense, but proved to be unprofitable, leading the inventor to design a pocket-sized flamethrower instead