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TIL Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People

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d8rgQ TIL A team of economists at NYU found that getting off Facebook appears to improve people’s lives. Users who deactivated their accounts for a month seemed to enjoy themselves more as a result, showing decreases in depression and anxiety and improvements in happiness and life satisfaction.
1rBr TIL that if your eyes were as good as the Hubble Space Telescope, you could stand in New York and distinguish two fireflies 1 meter (3 feet) apart in San Francisco.
jWaj TIL Slate wrote a piece on why they believe the New York Times’ Mini crossword puzzles suck. The following day, the New York Times’ Mini crossword puzzle had three long Across answers which read, AWFUL PIECE SLATE.
bpDE TIL that there’s a stinging tree called the Gympie Gympie that produces a toxin so painful, it’s driven people and animals to suicide. It’s been described as being sprayed with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man was reported to have shot himself after using the tree as toilet paper.
65EJ TIL - Kentucky Homeland Security thinks God is Vital to State Security and you can be fined and put in jail for up to 12 months if you do not acknowledge that God protects us from terrorism