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TIL Uber Hasn't Had An Effect On Drunken-Driving Deaths

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mNaO TIL The U.S Army has been cultivating a special unit of whistleblowers for combating groupthink in relation to critical decisions.
4XkwR TIL all New Orleans public schools were closed indefinitely in the wake of Katrina and students now attend private or public charter schools.
EgmD0 TIL that the one of the last major eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius prior to the destruction of Pompeii was around 1995 B.C, 2000 years before 79 A.D. It destroyed every bronze age settlement in the area. Thousands of footprints left behind by fleeing survivors can today be seen in the hardened flow stone.
KaV4 TIL in 1995 a Virginia inmate sued himself for $5 million for violating his own civil rights by getting drunk and getting arrested. The judge dismissed the case but congratulated the man on his “innovative approach to civil rights litigation.”
wgMJ TIL that two scientists proved time dilation by each flying around the world carrying a synchronized atomic clock. Upon landing, the clocks were no longer in sync.