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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.

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j64Dn TIL that Al Capone's long lost older brother was a prohibition lawman in the Dakotas. The brothers lost contact for decades until reuniting later in Al's life.
pYwxZ TIL that in 1940, after the fall of France during WW2, the British Royal Navy attacked and destroyed, neutralized or captured the largest ships in the French naval fleet in order to ensure they would not fall into German hands.
njwP TIL that the Titanic is the only ocean liner to ever be sunk by an iceberg.
a8wA9 TIL about the "Pilate Stone," a damaged block of carved limestone with a partially intact inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26 to 36.
6AM8 TIL a “factoid” is different than a “fact” - a factoid is a piece of information that is unsupported, completely out of context, or simply untrue but presented as a fact anyway