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TIL in Denmark there are facilities called “fix rooms” letting addicts inject certain type of drugs under supervision.

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n1M9 TIL red, green, and yellow peppers are all the same species of plants that are in different stages of ripening.
KYXj9 TIL that there is an island between Spain and France whose administration alternates every 6 months between both nations.
Jnj8 TIL that the original script for Good Will Hunting contained a scene in which Robin Williams gives Stellan Skarsgård a blowjob. This was because Damon and Affleck knew studio execs never read scripts and the scene wasn’t mentioned until Harvey Weinstein read it thinking it was hilarious
0wrMN TIL crows and ravens can mimic human languages
VAND TIL that group “brainstorming” doesn’t work – it makes each individual in the group less creative. “[B]rainstorming groups think of far fewer ideas than the same number of people who work alone and later pool their ideas.”