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TIL several European countries prescribe free heroin to addicts in order to improve there “social and health situation” while “significantly reduce[ing] costs incurred by trials, incarceration, health interventions and delinquency.”

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m1Lwo TIL The world record for the fastest flight speed of a manned airplane was set in 1967 when The North American X-15 reached a top speed of Mach 6.72 (4,520 mph or 7,274 km/h).
VvDD TIL Germany passed a legislation in 1985 that made it illegal to deny the existence of the Holocaust
MQoV TIL that the only time the US had zero debt was in 1835, when President Andrew Jackson paid it all off
KOZo6 TIL Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow), Alaska, saw its last sunset for 65 days Monday afternoon, The next sunrise will be Jan. 23 of 2020. the towns population is 4,000
GAyE7 TIL: Ben Franklin was a slaveowner for much of his life, but after a friend took him to visit a school for black children, he wrote that African ignorance was not inherently natural but came from lack of education, slavery and negative environments. He also petitioned Congress to end slavery.