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TIL Meth was originally an over the counter drug used to cure obesity and depression

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gp69 TIL that 69% of Americans Have Less Than $1,000 USD in Savings, as of September 2016
R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.
KOxkQ TIL in 2015, 100-year-old pub, The Carlton Tavern was illegally demolished by greedy developers. The pub was the only building in the street to survive the Blitz during World War II; because of that was subsequently ordered to be rebuilt brick by brick by the developer.
G9YQ TIL the word “gypped” is derogatory slang created from the belief that gypsies are thieves and swindlers
p64G TIL one person has made 47,000 edits to Wikipedia to correct a single grammatical error: the misuse of the phrase “comprised of”