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TIL the DEA updated/clarified some rules & regs for controls including C2 transfers

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wLRDP TIL that California's Stanislaus county, river, & forest are named after Estanislao, a Yokut tribal leader who rebelled against colonial rule and fought the Spanish & later Mexican armies to a stalemate. He was also known to carve an S into buildings during his raids.
9YGOp TIL the Amish celebrate Christmas twice. Once on December 25th, and once one January 6th for "Old Christmas"
4a8X TIL that M&M’s actually stands for “Mars & Murrie’s,” the last names of the candy’s founders.
jn7X TIL As a child Joe Walsh struggled to learn the guitar solo to the Beatles “And Your Bird Can Sing”. Upon meeting a Beatle years later he found out it was an overdubbed two-part solo and that he might be the only person in the world that could play both parts at once.
RjXl TIL R. Lee Ermey, the former US Marine who played the drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”, actually wrote 50% of his own dialogue in the film - “especially the insults”