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TIL that cocaine is 74% cheaper than it was 30 years ago.

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VMVb4 TIL that in the South Park Chinpokomon episode, the Japanese man who is always saying how small his penis is was actually based off a real person that Matt and Trey met.
8WBa TIL of the Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak who has been held in Erithrean prison without a trial for the last 15 years
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gNKy TIL Yul Brynner died of lungcancer in 1985. After his dead, he had a commercial aired: ‘Now that I’m gone, I tell you: 'Don’t smoke, whatever you do, just don’t smoke.’