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TIL that "Forever Young" by Alphaville, a favorite of high school dances for 40 years, is actually about nuclear war

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NX7Jb TIL the average full-time worker earns approximately $2.7 million over their entire lifetime
957M TIL A Harvard Professor was able to slow light down so much to the point that it “stopped”.
rRk84 TIL Prescriptions written for Adderall increased by nearly fivefold from 2002 to 2012, making it easier for people to get the drug from a friend or family member. Compared to that of other drugs, use of Adderall is rarely stigmatized; many people don’t recognize when a loved one has a problem
e0jJ TIL that when Gerber began to sell their baby food in Africa, they had to remove the image of a baby from the labels, since many horrified, illiterate Africans used these images to find what the bottles contained.
OG8VR TIL that match fixing got so out of control in Canadian soccer that one pro match ended early after the home team’s attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team