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TIL about Diederik Stapel, a Dutch Social Psychologist who falsified data in over 30 publications. "Discoveries" he made using falsified data included the finding that meat-eaters are more selfish than vegetarians.

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7e0p TIL a quadriplegic man was sentenced to 10 days in jail for a first time offence of possession of marijuana, despite the prison not having sufficient medical equipment for him. The 27 year-old died after four days in custody.
OoW4g Today I learned that the reason we have muscle cars from the 60's was because NASCAR banned engines that were not in production models so Plymouth in order to keep their big Hemi engines in racing, put them in regular stock vehicles giving us the big horsepower in those 60's hotrods.
0w8e1 TIL the state of California produces half of the fruit and vegetables consumed in the US, as well as 99% of artichokes and walnuts and 95% of garlic.
prL4 TIL LSD (Acid) was legal for decades, was given to undergraduate psychiatry students as part of their education, and it has the highest success rate in recorded history for treating alcoholism.
j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!