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TIL Georgia Governor Talmadge may have been integral in promoting infamous 1946 lynchings and was investigated by the FBI

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QJDOk TIL that the trick from "Office Space" where they stole tiny fractions of a cent from a large number of transactions and put it into their own bank accounts is called 'salami slicing'
6EObX TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program
E16Y0 TIL that to combat obesity, Chile passed a law that bans junk food ads aimed at children and prohibits the use of cartoon characters in their packaging
loXKG TIL that LSD leaves the bloodstream within a few hours, but essentially chains itself to brain receptors causing a long-lasting trip of up to 24 hours. Your high only wears off when enough of the LSD molecules "escape" from the locked receptor in your brain.
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