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TIL that hospitals can and do prescribe alcohol to patients in order to prevent delirium tremens and alcoholic withdrawal

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womJM TIL that Kevin Kwan sold the film rights to "Crazy Rich Asians" for just $1. However, as part of the conditions for the rights, he served as executive producer of the film with near-total creative control.
lVOa TIL ‘Evil’ behaviours can be categorised into four basic groups: machiavellianism, psychopathy, sadism and narcissism - and all have been researched in animals other than humans.
b6684 Today I learned, a whale shark’s diet consists of very small prey, because it’s throat is about as narrow as a quarter.
M7x50 TIL of William Blount, an early congressman who conspired to start a war with Britain to increase the value of his speculated land
LMBd TIL that not a single Witness Security Program participant who has correctly followed security guidelines has ever been harmed while in the federal witness-protection programme.