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TIL that the Fallout drug Med-X was originally called Morphine, but was renamed to avoid a ban of the game in Australia.

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R5xR1 TIL there are over 60 countries that have never won a single Summer Olympic medal. There are further 40 countries that have never won a single Gold medal.
40yo TIL that 7th Century general Khalid bin al-Waleed swallowed poison to demonstrate how much of a hard-ass he was. Instantly shrugging it off because he’d built up resistance since childhood, his enemy immediately surrendered.
b9OE9 til in 2017 McDonald forced the two locations that were still selling McPizza to take them off the menu
nwKo TIL the common garden snail can pass over the edge of razor blade without harm
jbPE TIL Lorillard Tobacco Company used to hand out Newport cigarettes to black children in playgrounds