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TIL that Richard Branson sued the NHS in 2017
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TIL when the Eiffel Tower was proposed, anglers in Paris feared that the tower would discharge lightning into the Seine and kill all the fish
ADXv7
TIL That Ed Kemper, serial killer who killed his grandparents and mother amongst many others, voiced reading hundreds of audio books for the blind
eAOL
TIL the heat a spacecraft faces on reentry isn’t generated by simple friction but rather by ram pressure - the fast-moving shuttle compresses the air in front of it, forming a massive shock zone in which air molecules ionize and break apart.
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TIL: “Obetrol” was FDA-approved January 19, 1960 marketed as a diet pill, prescribed in 10 and 20mg formulations. In 1979, amphetamines were banned for weight loss, and Obetrol was withdrawn... then it was reintroduced in the 1990’s as Adderall for ADHD.
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TIL that in Ninilchik, Alaska, there is a still spoken isolated dialect of Russian that hasn't evolved since +150 years ago.