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TIL the US was sold Kazakhstan’s uranium supply through a diplomat’s car mechanic

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EXPP TIL That a 6 year study of the D.A.R.E. program showed that a “small but significant number” of suburban students were more likely to use drugs after participating in it than those who didn’t.
NrYN TIL when Nancy Grace was a prosecutor, she was reprimanded three times for misconduct, including “her disregard of the notions of due process and fairness”
GYXJG TIL that before Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide, he helped free a Colorado woman who was convicted of murder despite her being handcuffed in the back of a police car at the time. She would have served a life sentence without parole and was freed just one month after his death.
N7yk6 TIL That "You can't have both the dick in the ass and the soul in heaven," is a Bulgarian Version of "You can't have your cake and eat it too."
8a48K TIL NASA tried to get Big Bird to go on a space shuttle mission to inspire kids, and he would have died if he did (in the Challenger space shuttle disaster).