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TIL Heroin is a brand name and the drug was originally marketed by Bayer as a non-addictive cough medicine.

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KObm9 TIL about Nuclear Semiotics - the study of how to warn people 10,000+ years from now about nuclear waste, when all known languages may have disappeared
ne1QG TIL that nose prints can be used to identify dogs in the same way that fingerprints can be used to identify humans.
D1E9p TIL that the word Antarctic just mean "opposite of the arctic."
6aJY TIL Natalie Portman missed the premiere party of “The Phantom Menace” because she had to go home to study for her high school final exams
GYePj TIL Nioh was originally based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script