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TIL about Stephen King’s Dollar Babies, a program in which Stephen King sells the rights to some of his short stories for 1$ to film students to help their careers

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97VD TIL in Chile, the the act of not wearing underwear has been called “to go gringo-style” (andar a lo gringo)
xVE87 TIL Game of Thrones co-creator David Benioff wrote a novel, City of Thieves, about 2 people surviving the Nazi onslaught in Russia. This novel was later the "major artistic inspiration" for the hit video game The Last of Us.
xrO1 TIL A recipe found in a 1,000-year-old medical text book has been shown to kill methicillin-resistant staph.
awLgA TIL - that putting sugar in a gas tank does not ruin the engine, and is no worse than getting sand in the tank.
ndpr TIL that Professor Kenneth Bentley and his entire team, who discovered Etorphine (a drug which is 1000-3000 times more potent than morphine and 4mg will immobilize a 4000kg elephant), passed out because someone stirred their morning tea with a glass stirrer used to make the etorphine.