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TIL Food Stamps are the best form of economic stimulus (far ahead of tax cuts)

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gMdL8 TIL In 1936, Pennsylvania placed a 'temporary' tax on all alcohol sales to help out victims of the Johnstown Flood, and that tax is still charged.
nWdYG TIL Neil Harbisson, the world's first ever recognized "Cyborg", uses a cybernetic implant to hear colors through learned perfect pitch. His device has different constraints than our eyes and allows him to "hear" colors that are outside the visible spectrum, like infrared and ultraviolet!
6pbJ TIL someone has been serial pooping in the holes of Norway’s Stavanger Golf Club for 10 years. The person even has a couple of favorite holes.
4X95 TIL that Billy Madison was shot entirely in Canada
9J4X TIL New York launched an “America Works” style workfare program in 1995 known as the Work Experience Program (WEP). The result was that thousands of students were forced out of school, and thousands of union workers were replaced by WEP workers doing the same jobs for a fraction of the pay.