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TIL that the first American newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was published September 25, 1690

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QNRm9 TIL Coca-Cola produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year
8eb8L TIL that FDR's grandfather, Warren Delano Jr, made his fortune off of a company smuggling opium into China despite Chinese efforts to ban trade of the substance that devasted generations.
d8DZE TIL that once WWII ended, ethnic German civilians fell victim to mass-murders, mass-rapes, torture, and forced labor all throughout Europe.