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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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DQd6v TIL that there used to be life insurance vending machines At. The. Airport.
ddAj TIL of Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, whose mental capacity was reduced to that of a two year old child and became incontinent after a lobotomy was performed on her without her mother’s permission
R7xj4 TIL "Dove" and "Pigeon" are names for the same bird. They're both names for members of the same family, Columbidae
ADGyx TIL Polaris aka the North Star, appears stationary in the sky because it is positioned close to the line of the Earths axis projected into space. As such, it is the only bright star whose position relative to a rotating Earth does not change.
d84rK TIL of Mary Jane Rathbun, an elderly hospital volunteer who became known for baking and distributing cannabis brownies to San Francisco AIDS patients in the 1980's.