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TIL licensed Mexican pharmacies are selling fake prescription medicine containing fentanyl and meth to tourists.

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PYPle TIL Sherlock Holmes never speaks the line "Elementary, my dear Watson" in the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was said by Basil Rathbone in the movie 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'
5GB TIL Marvin the Martian wore Roman armor as he was based on a conception of the Roman god Mars.
A8do TIL 34% of black males in Alabama have permanently lost their right to vote due to prior convictions
d8ppK TIL that in 1964 Reg Spiers, an australian athlete, shipped himself from London to Australia in a box, because he had no money to pay for a plane ticket to come back home for his daugter's birthday.
lobN7 TIL the Mastic tree is only found on the island of Chios and has been harvested for 2500 years. It is used for digestive problems, colds, as a breath freshener (chewing gum) and a multitude of other uses. It was threatened by the Chios forest fires in August 2012