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TIL there are at least 7,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke

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8o78 TIL that thalidomide, the infamous morning sickness drug that caused severe birth defects, was never approved for use in the US because of a single reviewer at the FDA who didn’t think it had been tested enough, and resisted industry pressure to approve the drug anyway.
QJgB6 TIL that due to the effect that gravity has on time, the core of the earth is approximately 2.5 years younger than the surface
lo9d5 TIL that Stewart Copeland, drummer of the English rock band The Police, is actually the only American musician in the band. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and his dad was a prominent CIA officer.
m1JPo TIL that in a 2014 poll, U.S. southerners were evenly split on whether Kentucky was a southern state.
yVgrV TIL that loneliness has the same impact on early death as smoking 15 cigarettes a day, making it more dangerous than obesity.