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TIL Combining certain antidepressants with alcohol can cause acute kidney failure.

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8ann4 TIL actor Edward James Olmos who played William Adama in the show Battlestar Galactica, had a clause in his contract about no aliens. "The first four-eyed monster I see, I'm going to faint on camera, and you're going to write me off the show." The show became a cult classic for its gritty realism.
LyP TIL John Pemberton’s original recipe for Coca-Cola was both alcoholic and contained cocaine, and when forced to change in 1886, he accidentally added the carbonated water to base syrup.
Z8Nwo TIL in 1927, during the worst flood in the history of the Mississippi River Valley, Herbert Hoover and the Red Cross set up "concentration camps" comprised of African Americans forced to work at gunpoint on the levee, and created a media campaign to cover it up.
YEwx TIL that an estimated 10-20% of the entire population of Mauritania is enslaved. It only became a crime in 2007.
eG7E TIL after Philippe Petit’s famous high-wire performance between the Twin Towers - “the artistic crime of the century” - he was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct. These charges were dropped on the condition that Philippe put on a free high-wire performance for children in Central Park.