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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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LkJrv TIL instead of cookies and milk, some Irish families leave a pint of Guinness for Santa on Christmas Eve.
QJAgE TIL Taco Bell has failed twice to expand their operations to Mexico. In 1992, Mexican customers found their tacos too expensive, and in 2010 their expansion restaurant closed because customers were unfamiliar with the menu items.
oBj78 TIL During the French Revolution the traditional court cards were replaced with Liberties, Equalities and Fraternities.
BrAor TIL Norman Pilcher, who arrested John Lennon and other rock stars for drug possession in the 1960's, served four years in prison starting in 1973 for fabricating entries in his police diary in the course of a large drug investigation.
QJYa TIL that a blood-red slurry of two-million year old microbes is pouring out of an Antarctic Glacier