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TIL a woman became addicted to bee stings. It started as an occasional sting to relieve pain from arthritis, but it "spiraled into a full-blown addiction" at 15 stings a day and about 50,000 times total since she started.

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GYEXG TIL Congress has met outside Washington DC twice since 1800: July 16, 1987, at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of ratification of the Constitution, & at Federal Hall in New York on September 11, 2002, to mark the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
W8Wd TIL when the 1979 film The China Syndrome, about a coverup at a nuclear plant, was released, it was denounced as a ‘character assassination of an entire industry’. 12 days later, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident occurred.
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