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TIL: NYC had to recall pencils with the message “Too Cool to Do Drugs” on them. As they were sharpened, they’d say “Cool to Do Drugs” and “Do Drugs”, etc.

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PB7w TIL Betteridge’s Law states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”
o40L TIL that when Ellery Schempp won the landmark case which banned prayer in public schools, his high school principal wrote letters of disrecommendation to every college he applied to. He was accepted to each one.
wBOY TIL that in 1947, India and Pakistan still had British Officers in their armies. When the first Indo-Pakistan War broke out, they commanded troops on both sides, and regularly corresponded via telephone.
yPoJ TIL More West Point graduates have been presidents of foreign countries than the United States
5NKR TIL a guy lived in a tiny, hidden cabin in the woods for years, then left without a trace upon discovery.