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TIL Real-time (to the day) drug use in urban areas can be monitored through sampling the sewage.

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OgYe TIL that banks are earning huge profits from betting on food prices. This drives up global food prices, forcing millions around the world into deeper poverty and hunger.
l995 TIL the U.S. spends more money per person on health care than any other developed country, yet its life expectancy is below average.
BgXRL TIL about Internet Group Suicide - a common thing in Japan in the early 2000's. The phenomenon of committing suicide with a group of random people who met on online forums
xwQk TIL Author Roald Dahl’s last words would have been “It’s just that I will miss you all so much”, but after a morphine injection, his last words were “Ow, fuck.”
X0g66 TIL dominant males of the fish species Limia perugiae often become so preoccupied with fighting each other that the females end up mating with the subordinate males