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TIL The NIDA deliberately mislead the public for years about the dangers of mdma by promoting retracted studies that used lethal doses of methamphetamine instead.

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nWEYY TIL Bloomsburg is the only town in Pennsylvania other municipalities are Cities, Boroughs or Townships
5XmB Today I learned that the FBI once tried to order pizza when investigating an insane asylum. The pizza place hung up on them.
LQeDZ TIL: The detectives, Thomas Thowsen and James LaRochelle faked a confession leading to a women's wrongful imprisonment for over 20 years.
og8Y TIL that two independent groups of researchers have shown that promoting random people to management is more effective than standard promotion methods like merit or seniority.
X09G6 TIL that Weird Al Yankovic doesn't need permission (under US copyright law) to make a parody of someone's song. He does so as a personal rule to maintain good relationships.