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TIL Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which used to air many PSAs through the 80s to the mid-2000s, was actually funded by alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical companies. The ads steered clear warnings about legal drugs being abused.

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N7ABN TIL the world's best selling spirit is "baijiu", a Chinese sorghum-based liquor.
1a67 TIL - Ulysses S. Grant considered the Civil War God’s punishment for what the United States did to Mexico in the Mexican-American war
E8ko TIL Saddam Hussein, former dictator of Iraq, wrote a romance novel.
GAl0N TIL that the world's oldest known piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
loew7 TIL At the end of WW1 in 1918, when revolutionaries toppled the monarchy all across Germany, King Friedrich August III of Saxony was asked by phone if he would like to abdicate willingly. He just replied "Oh, well, I suppose I'd better" and thus Saxony became a republic.