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TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.

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w1B8 TIL Comedian Spike Milligan’s wish to have his tomb stone read “I told you I was ill” was refused by the Chichester diocese. They compromised and wrote the same epitaph in Irish.
a8DYy TIL that Larry David, the creator of Seinfeld, is only 7 years older than Jerry Seinfeld, despite appearing much older the entire time they've both been famous.
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