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TIL that more people fatally overdose on prescription drugs than on street drugs

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xxxw TIL Pope Francis was a nightclub bouncer before he was Pope
L8XQ TIL of a Sesame Street special in 1983 in which Big Bird helps a cursed 4,000 year old Egyptian child prince defeat a demon by solving a riddle and weighing his heart
0wJP1 TIL The Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi has been been freezing and storing blue-fin tuna. They expect prices to skyrocket once the blue-fin tuna is extinct. They will own the only remaining supply.
4n1b TIL that researchers have shown mosh-pit behavior closely models the movement of 2-D gases in equilibrium.
N7BYQ TIL There is a monument in Kyoto Japan called the Ear Mound. It consists of Ears and Noses of Chinese and Koreans killed by the Japanese in the late 1500's. Its estimated there are 38,000 Korean noses in this Ear Mound memorial.