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TIL there's a drug called Antabuse. It helps recovering alcoholics by making them very ill if they drink a small amount of alcohol.

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v1nk4 TIL the world's first self-replicating synthetic organism also contains brainteasers written into its genetic code. Hidden inside its DNA are the names of its creators and famous quotes by James Joyce, Robert Oppenheimer, and Richard Feynman. There is also a URL address for those who crack the code.
bOYp TIL while pregnant with Tupac, Afeni Shakur was in jail on charges of conspiracy to blow up department stores, subways and police stations. Acting as her own lawyer, she was acquitted just a month before Tupac was born
w6kP TIL That in Japan they have specific sections of sidewalks textured for blind people’s canes so they know where shops, subways, and crosswalks are located.
OoOZ6 TIL Meg and Jack White of the White stripes publicly portrayed themselves as siblings despite the fact that they weren't related and had married in 1996 prior to the band's formation.
PYg1L TIL Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, sent letters to Hitler pleading with him to avoid war noting that he himself "shunned the method of war not without considerable success"