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

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16MQr TIL that Coolio was actually in his early 30s when he recorded Gangsta's Paradise, and its iconic line "I'm 23 now, but will I live to see 24? The way things is goin' I don't know"
xVa1k TIL Dinosaur names like "Triceratops", "Stegosaurus" and "Velociraptor" are just the name of the Genus they belong to, and the actual species' names are "Triceratops prorsus", "Stegosaurus stenops" and "Velociraptor mongoliensis".
LQMKP TIL that the Greeks had a word for something like gaslighting: eristic arguments.
XE9PP TIL about Operational security. An OPSec need not only be used for military action, Life is a big OPSec whenever we want to stop or start a routine, habit or behavior we unconsciously run an OPSec.
E18RP TIL about the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI, a small group that broke into an FBI field office and stole documents that revealed the FBI’s spying on and infiltration of left-wing organizations across the US.