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TIL: The United States consumes 80% of the world’s opioids

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kOlb4 TIL that more people in the US speak Spanish than in Spain
Rayj TIL A 14 year old Roman Emperor invented the whoopee cushion and used it on his guests at dinner parties. He was assassinated by age 18.
VMd10 Til after sap suckers drill those neat lines of holes in trees, and many other animals, such as hummingbirds, porcupines, and bats, will feed from them.
Rwpw TIL Americans are over-diagnosed and over-treated for depression, according to a study conducted at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
oRM5r TIL that "Lucifer" originally referred to a personified aspect of the planet Venus, and only acquired its current religious connotation when the Hebrew Book of Isaiah equated the king of Babylon with said Venusian aspect