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TIL A U.S. FDA study showed 90% of more than 100 drugs, prescription and over-the-counter, “were perfectly good to use even 15 years after the expiration date.” The U.S. military saved $260 million in five years by not discarding expired drugs.

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oKR8 TIL shortly before each terrorist who was involved in the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes was assassinated by Mossad, his family would receive flowers and a condolence card that read, “A reminder we do not forget or forgive.”
oRkWA TIL the International Space Station has gravity and everything is weightless only because they are in a constant free-fall around Earth
mxr4R TIL I learned about Mellified man. The donor would only eat honey, going as far as to bathe in the substance. Shortly, his feces (and even his sweat, according to legend) would consist of honey. When this diet finally proved fatal, the donor's body would be placed in a stone coffin filled with honey
ZA5Y TIL it was illegal for men to be topless on US beaches as late as the 1930’s
D1yaY TIL about Peter Siebold, the only person to survive a deadly spaceship disaster. He survived a fall from 50,000 ft, 30,000 of which in freefall, at a speed of Mach 1.