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TIL More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined

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xVaLD TIL of Buckethead, a musician who wears a KFC bucket on his head and a mask on his face and can play an electric guitar one-handed, to a degree.
A10x TIL a woman adopted by a black family in the 1940s only discovered she was white after finding her adoption papers in 2013.
xVvMD TIL The First successful Kidney Transplant took place in 1954 when Ronald Herrick, 23, had agreed to donate one of his kidneys to his identical twin brother, Richard, who was dying of kidney failure
loxL1 TIL the US owns 1.4 billion pounds of "Government Cheese"
LkPnp TIL that Oleandrin was purported as a promising cancer treatment in a 2013 study, however, the study was retracted (by the publisher) in 2016 because it contained plagiarized materials from user-generated web articles.