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TIL that 7 Up contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948.

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kOVLE TIL Austin St. John, the original Red Power Ranger, went on to become a Paramedic.
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GYM4E TIL when Primus played their song "My Name is Mud" at the rainy Woodstock 94, the crowd responded by pelting the band with mud. The band's singer, Les Claypool, stopped the song and said "when you throw things on stage, it's a sign of small and insignificant genitalia." The crowd ceased throwing.
8aVgP TIL that the heart can still beat outside the body for about 4 hours without medical intervention, that's because the heart is not regulated by the brain, the heartbeats are sparked by its own natural pacemaker.
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