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TIL that solstices, the days with either the most or least sunlight, don’t have either the earliest or latest sunrises or sunsets of the year.

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VMp4B TIL about R. Budd Dwyer, and Pennsylvania politician who killed himself on live tv
ANwWw TIL while traditional 12-step programs only have a 15% long-term success rate, a treatment for alcoholism called "the Sinclair method" has a long term success rate of nearly 80%. TSM involves the use of a drug called Naltrexone to block the endorphins released when drinking.
a8WKJ TIL selling child abuse material wasn't ruled to be outside of first amendment protections until 1982.
p6NN TIL Despite the fact that Jesse Owens won four gold medals during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, US President Franklin Roosevelt never congratulated or invited him to the White House. ‘Hitler didn’t snub me - it was FDR who snubbed me,’ Owens said
gr67L TIL fish need sleep, too, but when parrotfish sleep they wrap a cocoon of mucus around themselves – essentially, making their own sleeping bag every night that protects the parrotfish not just from predators, but from parasites.