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TIL the United States consumes over 84% of the world’s oxycodone supply, and 99% of its hydrocodone supply (opioid painkillers)

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kJWAd TIL the folk legend adapted into a play ‘Doctor Faustus’ was loosely based on a real alchemist/magician Johann Georg Faust
J1RRv TIL that just hours after JFK’s assassination, his wife Jackie Kennedy was present at the inauguration ceremony of Lyndon Johnson with her husband’s blood still on her clothes
XKDk TIL Abraham Lincoln, who ran as a Republican during the era of Whigs and Democrats, was America’s last third-party candidate to successfully win the presidency.
xVYO5 TIL that the CT scanner was invented by an electrical engineer working for EMI, the record company that signed the Beatles. His name was Godfrey Hounsfield and he performed the first CT in history by scanning his own brain.
94Qr TIL NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used to run a female beauty pageant, the winner of which was crowned ‘Miss Guided Missile’