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TIL after Rick James died, his autopsy found alprazolam, diazepam, bupropion, citalopram, hydrocodone, digoxin, chlorpheniramine, methamphetamine, and cocaine in his blood.

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neanY TIL A person in Romania, Constantin Reliu, is officially dead, although he’s alive, he has no income and because he’s listed dead, he can't do anything. In 2018 he attempted to convince a romanian court that his government-issued death certificate is incorrect, and FAILED.
rMA4 TIL After a doctor named Richard Barista was slapped with divorce papers from his wife, he sued her for the return of the kidney he gave her 8 years ago. He requested her to pay $1.5 million for the organ he donated and insisted his cash-for-kidney claim was a direct result of his wife’s behaviour
ANAmd TIL That "tank banks" were set up across Great Britain during WWI to sell war bonds to buy more tanks. Cites competed to see who could sell the most bonds. The city who raised the most money was Glasgow at 16 million pounds.
78mwp TIL there was a Japanese troop transport ship called Montreal Maru and it was sunk during the Aleutian Islands Campaign, the only campaign of WW2 fought on North American soil
6E8Gm TIL The reason Christmas is sometimes abbreviated to "X-mas" is because the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Christós (Χριστός), which became Christ in English. The suffix -mas is from the Latin-derived Old English word for Mass.