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TIL heroin was originally marketed as a nonaddictive alternative to morphine

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W5nB TIL that the Guinness Book of Records recognizes the presidential election of 1927 in Liberia as the most fraudulent election reported in history. Although there were only 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time, Charles D. B. King, received 234,000 votes and won.
ZpjGD TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.
DQE6D TIL About Vulnerable Narcissism. An introverted form of Narcissists who are hypersensitive to criticism and are likely to withdraw from socializing when criticized
6EK8Q TIL St. Cassian of Imola was martyred by having the students he was teaching stab him to death with iron styli.
yQOP8 TIL the accent that most actors had in films from the 30's and 40's (i.e. Jimmy Stewart from It's a Wonderful Life) was known as "Transatlantic" and nobody ever actually spoke that way.