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TIL that conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh who advocated mandatory-minimum sentencing for drugs users went to a rehab for his addiction to illegally obtained OxyContin, twice.

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Rne1 TIL Canadians rescue deer trapped on frozen lakes, by blowing them to the shore with helicopter downdraft.
Own4 TIL that bank robber John Wojtowicz plotted some of his robbery based on scenes in The Godfather (1972) starring Al Pacino. Al Pacino later went on to play John in the Academy Award winning movie Dog Day Afternoon (1975) based on the robbery.
bk4j TIL Russia owns an area of land the size of a small country in mainland Europe, with a population of 1 million. It is not connected to Russia by land and is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland.
wPBW TIL that in 1975, NASCAR were invited by Le Mans organizers to race 2 cars at the 1976 24h of Le Mans. They turned out to be surprisingly very fast, but weren’t built for endurance racing and broke down midway through the race.
R5oel TIL in 1985, Wes Craven directed an episode of The Twilight Zone starring Bruce Willis