› added 5 months ago

24

TIL There is a movie from 1995 about the USA invading Canada, a satire where the President needs a distraction from internal affairs

Read more youtu.be

via reddit.com

oR4RA TIL about Xylazine/“tranq” (an animal sedative) being mixed in with fentanyl in the US, unbeknownst to many drug users. It’s causing horrible wounds, ulcers and even amputations.
R7dx1 TIL state laws for online gambling are not based on residence, but rather location, so many people cross state lines in their car, place a bet via their phones, and drive back home, and it is all completely legal
ZYMR TIL Stress doesn’t cause stomach ulcers, a bacterium does. It took many years for an entrenched medical profession to accept it, but two Australian scientists won the Nobel Prize for this discovery, for Physiology or Medicine, in 2005.
9YMYX TIL in 1948 psychologist Bertram Forer gave a personality test to 39 students and provided the results one week later. The class gave the results' accuracy a rating of 4.3 out of 5. The results Forer provided to every student was exactly the same sketch, all gathered from a newsstand astrology book.
9ww8B TIL about kleptoparasitism, an opportunistic feeding strategy where one animal deliberately steals food from another.