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TIL: The United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids

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D18jg TIL Apollo 12 was hit by lightning twice within a minute of launch, knocking out the command module instruments, lighting up nearly every warning light on the control panel and garbling the telemetry to mission control. Earlier training simulating such a failure allowed them to restore power.
4X40N TIL: Male Jurors are more likely to find fat women guilty
yQGp8 TIL that Bill Niman, founder of Niman Ranch and pioneer of humane animal farming, stopped eating Niman Ranch products after his farm was bought out by a corporation that dropped his humane treatment and sustainability standards in order to make a profit.
4QaJ TIL Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194-1250) tried to discover a “natural language” of humans by having children raised without exposure to language. Allegedly, he never learned the answer because they all died.
9YWJp TIL that SEGA is short for Service Games