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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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kJWWg TIL: After his death, it was revealed that Stan Lee, famous Marvel Comics writer, suffered Elder Abuse from various handlers and family members who alienated him from the other part of his family and fired his accountants, lawyers, and caretakers that have been with him for decades.
7rJ6x TIL That There Is Are Several Statues Of Liberty In France (Pictured Statue Of Liberty, River Seine)
vjdD TIL 250,000 to 500,000 Gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust despite initially being classed as Aryans under Nazi racial ideology
xVdO5 TIL Paper Strength is measured in Kilometers, as a way to describe if a sheet of that paper measured that long would be vertically hung, it would tear on its own weight. That is to say, if a paper has strength of 14 Kilometers, a 14 Km long sheet would have to be vertically hung for it to tear.
adZ9 TIL There is a Phenomenon where people believe street lights react to their presence which is known as “Street light interference phenomenon”