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TIL Kentucky counties that banned alcohol now have twice as much meth use

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awo9y TIL that in the Vietnam War the average number of rounds expended from an M-16 rifle to kill one enemy soldier was 50,000, or $23,000 per kill. In comparison it took a sniper an average of 1.3 rounds, or $0.17 to kill an enemy soldier.
D1g1e TIL: In the 1990s, the South African government dismantled all of its nuclear weapons, the first nation in the world which voluntarily gave up all nuclear arms it had developed itself.
NX5LE TIL a Finnish nursing home ran a small project where they gave subsidised accommodation to students with the agreement that they would spend time with the elderly
rB5y TIL The last time humans traveled beyond Low Earth Orbit was Apollo 17 in 1972.
l7Z1 TIL Goldman Sachs owned 16% of the biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States for more than six years and sat on the company’s board for 4.