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TIL Americans consume 80% of the world’s pain pills.

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0www1 TIL when the first escalator in London was installed at Harrods in November 1898, customers were offered brandy at the top of the escalator “to revive them after their ordeal.”
A9Jl TIL: Archie and Marvel’s The Punisher actually had a crossover, in which The Punisher chases an drug dealing Archie lookalike into Riverdale. It is also the “prequel” to the Punisher/Batman crossover.
XEX46 TIL the Japanese work philosophy of “kaizen”, where people constantly seek to find ways to improve methods instead of just doing it the same way
VMDXG TIL of Waverly Woodson, a black medic who treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day while injured himself. As he hit the beach a shell tore apart his landing craft, filling him with shrapnel. Despite this, he set up an aid station and treated wounds for 30 hours, at one point even amputating a foot.
WXEX TIL that Alexander the Great founded and named 70 cities, naming at least 20 after himself, and one after his horse.