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TIL that during Prohibition doctors were able to prescribe medicinal alcohol for their patients.

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Y7km7 TIL surgical genital mutilation is performed on 80.5% of male babies in the United States. The rate is about 99% in a number of Muslim countries.
X9WX TIL Some ducks have been observed floating through tidal rapids or fast-moving sections of rivers, and when they’ve reached the end, they hurry back to the beginning to ride over and over.
b9vwN TIL the Department of Homeland Security ran a experiment to see if government employees and contractors would use CDs and USB drives they secretly dropped in parking lots where they worked. 60 percent of the time they did, with that figure jumping to 90 percent when an official logo was visible.
jRDR TIL in 1970 a protest group broke into a draft board office by slipping in during the day and taping a note on the door: “Please don’t lock this door tonight.” They returned that night to find that the staff had obediently left the office open.
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