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

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JxWl TIL One of Amazon’s earliest employees brought his Corgi, Rufus, to work each day. He became such a fixture that the company named a building after him and allows employees to bring their dogs to work. Amazon has over 2,000 four legged “employees”, averaging nearly 600 per day.
E1AMx TIL that Archimedes of Syracuse discovered Calculus 2000 years before Newton did, however this knowledge was unknown until 1907 when a book containing some of his lost works was found in Constantinoples.
OoXaa TIL that a TV news crew were filming on the streets of New York when Flight 11 hit the North Tower, but managed to get only audio of the actual crash.
noxP TIL there is a charity that buys up mortgages that have gone to collection for pennies on the dollar, then frees the homeowners of the debt. They’ve erased more than $14M so far!
e9JL TIL: If North Dakota seceded from the US it would be the 3rd largest nuclear power in the world. (#8 on this list)