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TIL Sertraline (Zoloft) is the most sold antidepressant in both the US with almost 40 million prescriptions per year
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TIL that in Southern Germany marking 20*C+M+B+nn above the front door ("chalking the door") is a religious tradition referring to Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar during Epiphany in the year 20nn.
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TIL that Rufus Hannah, one of the two homeless men featured the documentary movie "Bumfights", won a civil suit against the movies' producers, got sober, and worked as a project manager and homeless rights advocate.
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TIL about the Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment, where researchers arrived at "...the conclusion that routine preventive patrol in marked police cars has little value in preventing crime or making citizens feel safe and... [that those resources] could safely be allocated elsewhere"
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TIL the Paris Olympic Games of 1900 was a 5 month sideshow of the 1900 Paris Worlds Fair. It had poor venues, confusing schedules, few spectators, and athletes unaware of being in the Olympics! It took 121 years for the IOC to decide which events of "The Farcical Games" were truly “Olympic.”
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