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TIL in South Korea, spinning “barber poles” outside an establishment signify a brothel not a barbershop

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rN4O0 TIL that the most dangerous US city to drive in during the winter is Chattanooga, Tennessee which sees 8.35 fatal collisions for every 100,000 residents in the winter. (The distant 2nd place is Atlanta, Georgia at 5.73 fatal car accidents per 100,000 people.)
xeL1 TIL there was an experiment where three schizophrenic men who believed they were Jesus Christ were all put in one place to sort it out.
PjOL TIL the death metal growl has origins in Viking culture
j6K1R TIL Operation Midnight Climax was a program by the CIA in the mid 50s that used prostitutes to lure unsuspecting men to apartments in New York and San Francisco to drug them with LSD to test whether the combination of sex and LSD might influence the men to reveal information the government wanted.
yZQJ TIL there is a creature with the ability to neutralize almost all poisons, even from creatures it has never encountered. One day this ability might be utilized by Humans. This creature is called The Opossum.