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TIL in the Netherlands one can anonymously have their drugs tested free of charge, prioritizing educating over prosecution.

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lo7A1 TIL Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, believed that his professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a paper from George Orwell. He received a B-.
9YJPX TIL of Senioritis - a term used to describe decrease in motivation for students in senior year of high school, college, or grad school.
9YAVD TIL Pencils produced in the 1990s with the anti-drug slogan "Too Cool to Do Drugs" were recalled because, when sharpened, they read "Do Drugs"
D1oxg TIL in 2000, Microsoft was ordered to split in two by the US government in an anti-trust suit. Microsoft appealed and eventually settled, agreeing to cease anti-competitive behaviour.
yOMv TIL While filming The African Queen (1950) in the Congo,everybody on the crew including Katherine Hepburn, became extremely ill with dysentery from drinking the water. Everybody that is except for Humphrey Bogart, who only drank whiskey