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TIL Prince died due to an overdose caused by counterfeit opioid pills containing fentanyl

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XEEkR TIL that the little spiral wrap around car antennas is there to stop aerodynamic oscillations, not to boost signal or make it stronger
ywQJ TIL critics of early locomotives feared that women’s bodies were “not designed to go at 50 miles an hour,” and that women’s uteruses would fly out of their bodies as they were accelerated to that speed. Others suspected that any human body might simply melt at high speeds.
MR7b TIL the son of film composer John Williams is a lead singer for the band Toto
gMjwD TIL in 1857 Senator James Hammond, representative of South Carolina, released a manual of breastfeeding rules for enslaved women. The manual regulated time spent breastfeeding and rigidly set weaning schedules. The women were forced to nurse the children of their owners as well as other babies.
boaE TIL Stalin hated his son Yakov so much that when he failed to commit suicide by shooting himself Stalin only commented “He can’t even shoot straight.” During the war he was captured by the Germans and Stalin refused to trade any soldiers to bring him back