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TIL prescription drugs kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.

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Rama TIL that the roof of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault features a distinctive piece of art, due to a Norwegian law that requires government funded projects exceeding a certain cost to include some form of artwork.
ZWo4 TIL: In one season of the Dutch version of “Survivor,” the men and women were split and given their own islands. At the end of 8 days, the men had a “Cafe on the beach,” while the women were stealing from each other and had not yet built a hut; the women approved of a tribe merger.
WkZr4 TIL of the ASRV Remora, the Royal Australian Navy's submarine rescue vehicle. "Remora" stands for "Really Excellent Method Of Rescuing Aussies"
nWllY TIL that European trucks are rarely sold in the US was due to a 25% retaliatory tariff (aka the "Chicken Tax") on European trucks, which was put into place after European countries got together and imposed tariffs on imported chickens from the US.
l7NV7 TIL: Nearly 7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYTimes