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TIL that over a span of six years, pharmaceutical companies have sent 400 pain pills to West Virginia for every person living in West Virginia.

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GxG4 TIL Disney considered creating a park called “Shadowland” or “Dark Kingdom” dedicated to villains.
WkVVY TIL in WW2 after getting dumped in the south pacific, a few comics of the phantom(among other brands of objects) started being drawn by the natives in tribal shields
p8b5e TIL that of Miami and Tampa are 2 of the 3 major cities in the United States to never have reached 100 degrees officially.
KYvpa TIL in a family with twelve children, six of the boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia and were later found to possess a genetic mutation that is so vital to brain function that it could help researchers understand how schizophrenia works.
WGm8 TIL that the term “football” did not originally have anything to do with kicking a ball with your feet, but instead meant that a game was played on foot as opposed to on a horse, and hence was a game for “commoners”