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TIL The Sword in the Stone and Excalibur are two different swords

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lyoa TIL that as of 2012 there were 12 states in which doctors wrote more prescriptions for opioids than there were people in the state.
yVMNJ TIL wasps help prevent the destruction of $417 billion worth of crops from insect pests every year. This is higher than the annual value of insect pollination at $250 billion per year.
0wyn1 TIL that the voice on the Philips SmartStart AED Defibrillator is Peter Thomas, the guy who narrates Forensic Files
AaWl TIL A group of writers purposely wrote a terrible novel full of nothing but sex scenes to prove how vulgar American culture had become. It became a bestseller.
xaxk TIL Jeff Bridges was four months old in his first film appearance