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TIL about bees in Brooklyn who produced red honey which led to an investigation at a nearby marachino cherry factory which led to the discovery of a marijuana farm beneath the factory. The owner committed suicide before getting busted.

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a8YdZ TIL that Bismuth, the active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol, technically has no stable isotopes - however its most stable and common isotope has a half-life more than a billion times the age of the universe. (Some more facts in the comments)
J1X9l TIL that Purdue Pharma claimed that oxycontin was not addictive by citing, among others, a document titled "Addiction Rare in Patients Treated with Narcotics" which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine...as a letter to the editor.
rNdMW TIL before his career took off, Patrick Swayze and his wife had a carpentry business. Though Swayze didn’t know much about carpentry at first, he learned a lot through books, and their business ended being very profitable. At one point, they even renovated the kitchen of actress Jaclyn Smith.
awgDZ TIL A roman scholar predicted microbiology over 2000 years ago, writing "there are bred certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
X04jE TIL That Aspirin was initially Byer's trademark name for acetylsalicylic acid that scientists at the Bayer company began studying in 1897. They received a patent for Aspirin in 1900.