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TIL Oxycontin is more addictive because the withdrawal symptoms are so bad.

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KdAJ TIL items confiscated by the TSA (including weapons) end up getting sold back to the general public in state-run auctions.
R5Vmj TIL that there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel, (an e-sport!) which consists of solving mathematical problems and complex financial models on Excel quicker than your opponents. The 2023 winner, 'Andrew the Annihilator', got a wrestling-style belt, a trophy, and $3,000.
bP8Z TIL that Amelia Rose Earhart actually has never held the record as the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine aircraft; that record belongs to Richarda Morrow-Tait
wLaD8 TIL during the Han dynasty, unmarried women and their families had to pay a special tax for their singleness. On the other hand, women with babies didn't have to pay taxes for three years and their husbands didn't have to pay taxes for one year.
bm7a TIL Benedict Cumberbatch and Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield are cousins