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TIL Legal drugs now kill more people than heroin and cocaine combined.

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epAwD TIL about Ghostwatch, a BBC program where in a live broadcast style, they investigated an alleged poltergeist, which unraveled into various people becoming possessed, including the host. At least one death is attributed to this broadcast.
welY TIL facial expressions are a very important part of sign language. Certain mouth and eye movements serve as adjectival or adverbial modifiers.
0d0Jp TIL that before his involvment in the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was extremely lazy, never had a real job, dropped out of school and was very poor for many years. At one point he was sleeping on park benches and begging for money and later lived at a home for poor men for a few years.
5odr TIL that a gallon of gasoline has 31,000,000 calories.
b9EAN TIL Hitler offered to trade a million Jews for material goods, including 10,000 trucks. The Jews would have been allowed to go to any Allied country except Palestine, as Hitler had promised the Grand Mufti no Jews would settle in Palestine. The offer was rejected.