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TIL prescription drug bottles are translucent orange to resemble old amber glass bottles that were common in apothecaries.

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KY8yB TIL During the '74 World Cup Final, Johan Cruyff, refused to wear the adidas kit due to his Puma sponsorship. They compromised and he wore a jersey with only two stripes. Years later Cruyff's own clothing brand released an orange shirt with 2 stripes and his number 14 - adidas then tried to sue him.
4Jw TIL Helena Bonham Carter pays her psychotherapist-mother to read her scripts and deliver her analysis of the psychological motivation of the character Helena is to play.
epD0b TIL: Founding Father and author of the Bill of Rights James Madison stopped the Virginia Assembly from establishing Christianity as the state religion with the help of Thomas Jefferson.
KON7Q TIL Georges Charpak was awarded the 1992 Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention and development of particle detectors. In 1944 he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, where he remained until the camp was liberated in 1945
JJRV TIL in 2013 a motorist argued that driving with corporation papers in his front seat allowed him the right to drive in a carpool lane. He ended up paying a $478 fine.