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TIL Dennis Quaid’s face appeared on warning labels of vials of blood thinner Heparin to remind nurses not to accidentally inject patients with high concentration doses after Quaid’s newborn twins almost died of an accidental overdose

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8a9DP TIL that in 1974 a local in Alaska played an April fool's joke on April 1st of an entire city. He set about 100 car tires, smoke bombs and other flammable materials on fire in the crater of an inactive volcano to make it look like the volcano was about to erupt.
E7eW TIL the parody national anthem of Kazakhstan from Borat was accidentally downloaded and played for a Kazakh gold medalist in shooting
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