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TIL that there are actual anti-drugs out there. Anti-weed, anti-LSD, and anti-heroin drugs have been developed in order to give the user the opposite effect of their more illegal counterparts.

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P10dV TIL There Are Over 200 Bodies on Mount Everest, And They’re Used as Landmarks
erdk TIL that since the movie “Beasts of No Nation” was released online the same time it was theatrically, AMC, Regal, Carmike, and Cinemark completely boycotted the movie, effectively downgrading the movie to a limited-release movie with a box office return of $90,777.
d8WrB TIL famous architect Buckminster Fuller proposed using the word "world-round" over "world-wide" because he felt like "world-wide" was anachronistic since the flat-earth belief was antiquated
Y7v7Z TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa began to tilt early in it's construction. In an effort to compensate for the tilt, engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other. Because of this, the tower is curved.
VBXe4 TIL that Ruhollah Khomeini's only written message to a foreign leader was a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, telling him that communism was doomed and suggesting that Gorbachev convert to Islam.