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TIL that dozens of methods have been proven more effective than AA’s Twelve Step Program

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j6Een TIL: A southern France firefighters' department statistic attributes 16% of local bushfires to cigarette litter thrown out of moving vehicles
M8A7 TIL of the Fighting Hypothesis, which argues that left-handedness was not bred out of the gene pool because it provided an advantage in the combat.
6KNQ TIL: Dexter Holland, the lead singer, rhythm guitarist and songwriter of The Offspring has an MS in molecular biology, and in 2013 co-authored a paper on microRNA in HIV genomes. He owns a hot sauce company, and is a licensed flight instructor who has flown around the world on his own, in ten days.
GYMjj TIL that Robert Oppenheimer, "the father of the atom bomb" and the head of the Manhattan Project, once tried to poison his advisor for making him do experimental work instead of theoretical physics.
yQ8JJ TIL about the NYPD's elite mobile blacksmith unit. They are responsible for the NYPD's horseshoes.