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TIL most deaths from overdoses occur when a recovering addict relapses, and takes a dose that they’ve by then lost the tolerance for.

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MopK TIL that the guy who played the alien in Alien was a random person Ridley Scott found in a bar and has had no other roles
pYeLQ TIL that Tame Impala is only a band when it plays live. All of their studio material is written, recorded, produced and performed by a single man, Kevin Parker. When performing live, however, there are up to 6 members in varying positions.
DQx7J TIL about the Varangian Guard. It was an elite military unit composed of Vikings and some Anglo-Saxons who were recruited to serve as the personal bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors. The Byzantines exclusively hired foreigners as they lacked any political allegiance.
dlYK TIL George Lucas offered his game developers the choice between naming a villain “Darth Icky” and “Darth Insanius”, and was completely serious
DrZY TIL Voyager 1, the only man made object to leave the solar system, is carrying, amongst other records, a song called “Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground”. This song is available to extraterrestrials, should they ever find it, but not available in India, Canada, or the UK on copyright grounds.