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TIL: 28 States have banned texting while driving. 22 of them offer traffic updates via twitter.

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j6Grv TIL: Video Games Have Shown a Strong Statistical Link to Improving Medical Surgeon Performance
Lkw8m TIL that most cigarette tobacco is in fact "reconstituted tobacco", sheets of waste material sprayed with nicotine and other chemicals, which are then cut to look like leaf.
XEjWQ TIL that Allspice is not, in fact, all the spices mixed together, but rather a type of sun-dried Central American berry.
MZyV TIL that the Soviet Union could have vetoed the Korean War, but did not. Their delegates were boycotting the UN over a separate issue when the resolution was proposed.
7roGr TIL in 2009 Nine women were rescued from what they thought was a Big Brother reality show house but turned out to be a criminal organization.