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TIL one of the drugs to treat Valium dependency is… Valium.

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gNPy TIL that the species of banana eaten today is different to the species eaten pre 1965. The Gros Michel banana became commercially extinct in 1965 due to fungal disease. Today’s main export banana, the Cavendish, is now under threat from the same disease.
a8beA TIL about Michael Colombini, a 6-year-old boy who was killed when a nurse accidentally brought a steel oxygen tank into the room where he was getting an MRI scan. The tank flew toward him, crushing his skull, and leading to his death 2 days later.
VKYp TIL of the Fukushima 50. During the 2011 earthquake in Japan, 50 workers at the nuclear power plant would not leave even though 750 others had been evacuated. For four days they kept the reactor from melting down until backup arrived, saving countless lives.
aw1ry TIL that Cassette Tapes have risen 103% in sales this year, on course to sell over 100,000 units by the end of the year, paralleling the final year they reached such numbers in 2003
vPvvK TIL that Friedrich Fröbel in 1840 first coined the term "kindergarten" because he believed that children should be nurtured and nourished "like plants in a garden".