TIL: How Opioid sales quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, with 91 Americans dying daily from opioid overdoses (medium.com)
TIL about de la Chapelle syndrome where people with XX chromosomes are born with traditionally masculine organs & presentation. Usually those with the trait are unaware they have XX chromosomes at all (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL: How the IMF Debt Trapped Kenya Causing Nationwide Protests (youtu.be)
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TIL: Louisiana has 5 times more Prisoners than Saudi Arabia (youtu.be)
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TIL sailing ships commonly moved around without wind by warping (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Warping is throwing an anchor either manually for a small ship or by rowing the anchor out and dropping it farther away for a larger ship. Then the ship would reel it to change position. Good for maneuvering in harbor. Etymologically related to “throwing” and essentially threading a needle across the sea....
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TIL: How Private Prisons Sued The State of Arizona for Not Having Enough Prisoners (medium.com)
TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why. (www.smithsonianmag.com)
TIL: The Chicken soup for the soul publisher owns redbox (www.foxbusiness.com)
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TIL Private Prison stocks skyrocketed when Trump was first elected (www.thestreet.com)
TIL about Wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic worldview of accepting the simple, imperfect, and transient things in the world. Similar to kintsugi (repairing broken pottery with golden paste), it's abou (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL from the school of OMG why didn’t I think of that
Alt milk tetra pack repurposed as drink tray.
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Today I learned Choice VA was created after the 2014 VA scandel. (en.m.wikipedia.org)
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