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

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rNXny TIL Albert Kahn was an industrial architect working out of Detroit. In 1937 he designed 19% of all factories built that year. He opened an architectural school in Russia. In 1941 he received the eighth highest salary in the USA, $486,936. His last building was the Willow Run bomber plant.
Z8W9v TIL 37 million pounds of Jelly Bellies are made each year, enough to circle the earth several times
kJVee TIL About USS The Sullivans - The first ship in the Navy named after more than one person. It was named after 5 brothers who were killed when their ship was torpedoed in WWII, an event that led to the policy portrayed in Saving Private Ryan. USS The Sullivans itself sunk in 2022 as a museum ship.
695Em TIL Freud liked cocaine so much that he would give it to friends and family as a gift.
W778L TIL in 1970, Sean Flynn, son of actor Errol Flynn, disappeared in Cambodia while working as a photojournalist during the Vietnam War. While leaving the country’s capital, he set off on his motorbike for a press conference in Saigon. He were never seen again, and in 1984, Flynn was declared dead.