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TIL about the existence/use of “Snuff Tablets” in/by South American indigenous cultures 🤔😋👌🏼

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xvrk TIL that between 50-100 Americans currently use a plutonium-powered pacemaker. They are to be returned to Los Alamos upon the owner’s death.
eO6E TIL of Stanley Meyer’s water powered car, mysterious death, and final words: “They poisoned me!”
v1yB7 TIL in the United States, there hasn't been a reported death due to a black widow bite in 100 years.
1aYld TIL Roy Orbison wrote the biggest hit of his career after asking his first wife, Claudette, if she needed cash for the market. His writing partner interjected “pretty women don’t need money.” As Orbison watched Claudette go to the market by “walking down the street”, he wrote “Oh, Pretty Woman.”
71eX TIL that the justification for both times the United States invaded Iraq were based on testimony that was proven false.