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The science of the spins

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wLKW8 TIL Scotland has the highest percentage of cocaine usage in the world with around 1 in 40 scots using the drug.
raXW TIL when Titanic went down, its shipping company stopped the crew’s pay but charged families the freight costs of shipping the bodies back. Most couldn’t afford it, which is why there are so many memorials rather than graves for the more than 500 crewmen from Southampton who died aboard the ship.
J1we1 TIL The tomb of St. Nicholas excretes a liquid called manna. For hundreds of years this manna has been collected by the Church. (fixed link)
DMNj TIL that Fox News contributor Todd Starnes falsely reported on a kindergarten student who was told by her teacher not to pray in class. The parent of the child turned out to be Marcos Perez, who was the promoter of Starnes’ new book about the imaginary assault on Christianity in the US.
69E8W TIL that in April of 1861, Former President Franklin Pierce wrote to the other living former presidents and asked them to consider meeting to use their stature and influence to propose a negotiated end to the war. However, this idea was ultimately never acted on.