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TIL that people in Columbus Ohio (area) speak the “Clearest” English in the United States

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ADbrn TIL Tennessee's "Crack tax" required drug dealers to anonymously pay taxes on their illegal sales and earned the state more than $6 million (mostly in seized property), before benig declared "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable, and therefore invalid under the constitution of [the] state."
yVdbJ TIL of "Shit Life Syndrome," a medical term for a form of depression resistant to therapy and anti-depressants, caused by ones life circumstances.
gMmvL Today I learned that used tennis balls from Wimbledon are recycled as housing for harvest mice to help them protect them.
Y7jPP TIL on May 16, 1957, Yankees stars Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra attended a birthday party for Billy Martin at NYC’s Copacabana. A fight broke out when intoxicated bowlers yelled racial slurs at Sammy Davis Jr. One bowler, a Bronx deli owner, suffered a concussion and a broken jaw.
jDdv TIL that Stan Lee’s eyesight has deteriorated to the point where he can no longer read comic books.