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TIL An estimated 92% of U.S. dollar bills contain traces of cocaine

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yk8e TIL that Haiti, cholera free for > 100 years, suffered an extreme outbreak after Nepalese UN relief workers dumped raw sewage into a stream. Hundreds of thousands sickened, around 10,000 dead and cholera is now endemic in the nation.
dkw8 TIL that a 2010 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety showed that laws banning ‘texting while driving’ have actually increased road accidents because people will do it anyways, and hide their phone down lower where it is harder to see the road.
D1rVv TIL the actor who played the killer in Boyz N Da Hood later became a Blood and was locked up for a double homicide. He was then murdered and his body was used for a satanic ritual
69XyZ TIL the first artificial ice rinks were made using hog's lard and salts
neQ7 TIL in 1912 Teddy Roosevelt Split from the Republican Party and ran on a platform calling for a National Heath Service along with an End to the “… the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics [of both parties]…”