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TIL that NYC trash collectors refer to maggots as "disco rice":

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9bpD TIL Alcohol is the most dangerous drug to withdrawal from.
8wA4 TIL the day before 9/11, current secretary of defense announced that the pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion dollars
EgoKX TIL that in Anglo-Saxon England between 10 and 30 per cent of the population were slaves. Slave raids on different parts of the British Isles were common. The Medieval French church turned against slavery around 1000 AD and when the Normans invaded in 1066 they slowly ended the practice.
Z8pGv Today I learned that New Zealand wants to eradicate all invasive mammal predators by 2050.
j68pp TIL about a documentary called Titicut Follies, directed by Frederick Wiseman. The documentary took a look at the conditions inside Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. In 1967, a judge issued an injunction that prohibited the film from being shown to the public.