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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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LPW0 TIL Mild-mannered Jon Lovitz went nuts on Andy Dick at a comedy club accusing him of being somewhat responsible for Phil Hartman’s death. Dick apparently got Hartman’s wife back on drugs. Phil was shot five months later.
rNn0e TIL the Prince song 1999 was inspired by a documentary on Nostradamus and is about an imagined party during the end of the world.
wLKeM TIL that Len Bias was selected by the Boston Celtics as the second overall pick in the 1986 NBA draft on June 17, and died two days later from cardiac arrhythmia induced by a cocaine overdose. He is considered by some sportswriters to be the greatest player not to play at the professional level.
xVYjb TIL When relocating adult koalas to populate new areas of bush, the incoming koalas are fed a poo smoothie of local koala poo so they can digest local leafs.
M7obb [TIL] There are only a few programming languages not in based on English