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TIL the color orange was named after the fruit

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p8rEZ TIL Anti-Depression Pharmaceutical companies can choose which studies they submit to the FDA, allowing them to claim higher effective rates than the totality of studies suggest.
X0ppk TIL In preparation for his role as “Bill the Butcher” in Gangs of New York (2002), Daniel Day-Lewis would often pick fights with strangers on the streets of Rome where the movie was filmed. The method acting, Day-Lewis said was “not so good for my physical or mental health”
oBZV8 TIL that vegetarians are more likely to suffer from mental disorders than omnivores
jNX6R TIL that Sean Astin (LOTR, Goonies etc) is the adopted son of John Astin (Gomez from The Addams Family)
awEpN TIL that an $80M inheritance left to a dog (Gunther III) has grown to over $400M and left to his son Gunther IV