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    18 May 2018

    presents the pros and cons of controversial issues, including gun control, marijuana, illegal immigration, the death penalty, school uniforms, the drinking age, and more. Pick a topic and dive in!

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  2. Apr 26

    On this day in 1986, the largest nuclear accident ever happened at Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in the former USSR.

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  3. Apr 23

    According to an Apr. 2016 study, “higher wages for low-income individuals reduce crime by providing viable and sustainable employment.”

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  4. Apr 22

    Millennials were more likely to use pre-prepared foods, the internet for recipes, and a meal delivery service; least likely to know how to make lasagna, carve turkey, or fry chicken; and fewer reported being a good cook than Gen X or Baby Boomers.

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  5. Apr 22

    At a virtual climate summit attended by 40 other world leaders on Earth Day 2021, President Joe Biden committed the US to cutting greenhouse gases by 50% to 52% by 2030, a non-binding stipulation of the Paris Agreement.

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  6. Apr 21

    Can you guess which tech was going to create a “race of left-eared people—that is, of people who hear better with the left than with the right ear, so that we would become “nothing but transparent heaps of jelly to each other"?

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  7. Apr 21

    On Apr. 22, 1898 the first state law requiring children to recite the pledge in schools was passed in New York.

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  8. Apr 20

    Our functional IQ drops 10 points as we are distracted by multiple tasks (such as all of those open browser tabs); that's more than the effect of a lost night’s sleep and more than double the effect of smoking marijuana. Is the internet "making us stupid"?

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  9. Apr 19

    Did you know? Trains initially caused worry among some “that women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and so their “uteruses would fly out of [their] bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.” Learn more about technophobia:

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  10. Apr 19

    The Act fixed the dollar as the equivalent of 24.75 grains of gold and 371.25 grains of silver.

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  11. Apr 19

    In Apr. 1792, Congress passed the first Coinage Act based on the recommendations of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton that established the US Mint to provide official coin currency for the nation’s bimetallic monetary system.

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  12. Apr 16

    City officials say the donation is a form of reparations for the mass slaughter of native bison in the late 1800s. Should this form of reparations be paid to Indigenous people and descendants of slavery?

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  13. Apr 16

    As reported by NPR, Denver Parks and Recreation are sending 13 bison, including several pregnant females, to Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma, and one to the Tall Bull Memorial Council in Colorado, where the bison will live on their native land.

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  14. Apr 15

    New Topic: Is the Internet "Making Us Stupid?" -- Top 3 Pros & Cons

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  15. Apr 14

    The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens in Apr. 1896 and included 241 athletes from 14 countries competing in 43 events.

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  16. Apr 12

    On this day in 2014, Maryland became the 21st state to legalize medical marijuana.

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  17. Apr 9

    Today in 1792, the Kentucky constitution was the first to establish criminal disenfranchisement: "Laws shall be made to exclude from... suffrage those who thereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

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  18. Apr 7

    In Apr. 1862, around 900 Washington, DC, slaveholders were paid about $23 million in 2020 dollars to free 2,981 slaves through the DC Compensated Emancipation Act.

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  19. Apr 5

    On this day in 2018, Hawaii legalized physician-assisted suicide, making it the eighth jurisdiction to do so.

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  20. Apr 2

    Low demand, combined with processing bottlenecks and grocery store ordering caps, forced milk farmers to dump milk before it was delivered to processors because slowing milk production could have led to shortages after the pandemic is over.

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  21. Apr 2

    In Apr. 2020, Apr. dairy farmers were forced to dump up to 3.7 million gallons of milk daily due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Due to school and restaurant closures, demand for milk dropped sharply.

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