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TIL The creator of Firefox works on the Google Chrome team

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E16Dd TIL in the early days of drugstore ice cream counters and soda shops, medicine such as cocaine and heroin were added to drinks at the customers discretion. The sweet flavors helped cover up the bitter taste of the medicine.
4VLw TIL After two wars in Iraq and one in Afghanistan, the M1 Abrams tank has suffered only one combat death.
VMxK4 TIL that, as a philanthropist, actor Paul Newman was counted as the person who had distributed more money - in relation to his own wealth - than any other American during the 20th century.
69Rpm TIL: That John Candy's father died of complications of heart disease at age 35 in 1955 when Candy was just five years old.
Dr5v TIL there are an estimated 50,000 undocumented Irish in the US