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TIL actual meth can be prescribed for ADHD in the United States

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wL51 TIL Isaac Newton was like Dirty Harry in 17th century London - chasing counterfeiters of the Royal Mint, bribing crooks for info, threatening criminals and their famlies, eventually focusing on his nemesis. And then he burned all his notes to cover his dirty ways of catching crooks.
AN9gl TIL that Vodafone paid over 185 billion euros in stock to purchase German company Mannesmann at the peak of the telecommunications bubble in 2000. Vodafone today has a market cap of around 22 billion euros.
BkjL TIL Dwayne Johnson was set to star in a movie about Hawaiian warrior-king Kamehameha, but was pulled because he’s Samoan, with the producer saying, “It would be a great taboo for the part to go to a nationality that was a fierce enemy of the Hawaiians during that time.”
rN9PW TIL that Wall Street (NYC) was named because of a northern wall boundary to keep natives out
WjdL TIL that the drink “Lindsay Lohan” is a"readheaded slut" with some Coke added