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TIL that even after extinction, the Dodo is still the national animal of Mauritius.

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4156 TIL that Actiq is a drug that is 100 times more potent than morphine and its dosage unit is a berry flavored lozenge on a stick (i.e. a lollipop).
Z0rQ TIL that in Texas some convicts are offered decades long prison sentences or forced book club meetings while on parole
PRWg TIL: MGM studio placed 16 year old Judy Garland on a diet of chicken soup, black coffee, cigarettes, and amphetamines to keep her appetite under control
aAXo TIL in 1486, Spanish mathematician Paolo Valmes was allegedly burned at the stake for claiming to have solved the quartic equation because it was a against the will of God “such a solution (is) inaccessible to human understanding”
gmaD TIL The term “86” has no official etymology, but it has a couple of plausible origins, including a reference to standard graves being typically dug 8 feet long, and 6 feet deep.