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TIL Drug overdose deaths, driven largely by prescription drug overdose deaths, are now the leading cause of injury death in the United States – surpassing motor vehicle crashes.

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4kvN6 TIL that hard-shell tacos were invented in the US by Mexican-Americans. After noticing how popular they were in San Bernardino, Glen Bell was taught how to make the shells and then opened a taco stand there in 1951 that became the first Taco Bell.
W7JO8 TIL that Allianz (one of the world’s largest insurers) insured Nazi concentration camps like Auschwitz and in 1933 Hitler’s cabinet included the head of Allianz
PYAaE TIL that in the Science of Discworld books, which tells of a flat "earth" floating through space, there is a organization called Omnianism, on Discworld, that believes the Discworld is round.
R55bw TIL Jim Carrey went through Navy Seal torture training in order to play the grinch.
DXKD TIL of the Codariocalyx motorius, a plant that starts moving, or “dancing” when exposed to sound. We don’t know how it works, or why this plant would develop such an ability.