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TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan

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GYPbQ TIL The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit finds Sanofi improperly listed insulin device patent in FDA’s Orange Book
V1RD TIL a golfer was killed by his own club he threw in frustration. It bounced back and pierced his heart.
m6xR TIL that grocery cashiers in the US are seldomly given chairs to sit during work (unlike in Europe).
G8Wg TIL Spock’s ‘Live long and prosper’ hand signal is ancient Jewish symbol Leonard Nimoy remembers seeing as a boy.
rRGLy TIL Until the mid-1960s in Britain, pregnancy tests were done by sending a woman's urine to a lab, where it would be injected into a toad. The toad was checked two hours later and if it had laid eggs, the woman was pregnant.