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TIL that It’s illegal for drug companies to advertise to consumers almost everywhere in the world. The only exceptions are the US and New Zealand.

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5YQEn TIL of allemansrätten in Sweden (lit. "the everyman's right"). It gives a person the right to access, walk, cycle, ride, ski, and camp on any land—with the exception of private gardens, the immediate vicinity of a dwelling house and land under cultivation.
wLGd1 TIL why toothpaste makes orange juice awful. A common detergent/surfactant called sodium lauryl sulphate in toothpaste both suppresses sweet receptors, and destroys phospholipids in your mouth which inhibit your bitter receptors. So it employs a double-whammy impact to your taste buds!
5Qm8 TIL that D.A.R.E., the education program that seeks to prevent use of controlled drugs, has been deemed “ineffective” repeatedly in multiple studies.
WlD4 TIL of Gobekli Tepe. An ancient temple more sophisticated then stone henge which predates it by 6000 years. Making Stone Henge closer to us in years than the creaters of Gobekli Tepe were to Stone Henge.
9Y6D7 TIL that William Burke, who killed with his partner 16 persons and sold their bodies for use as specimens in anatomy classes of Edinburgh Medical School, was hanged and his corpse was publicly dissected and preserved in the anatomical museum of the same school.