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TIL that Coca Cola douches were used as contraceptives in USA in the 1950s and 60s..

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OGZ4e TIL about 75 percent of persons who recover from alcohol dependence do so without seeking any kind of help, including specialty alcohol (rehab) programs and AA. Only 13 percent of people with alcohol dependence ever receive specialty alcohol treatment.
j6VVR TIL that priest Father Damien worked in Hawaii for 16 years, providing comfort to the lepers. He built homes and he treated lepers with his medical expertise. He prayed and comforted the dying. He later contracted leprosy but continued to give to the people and helped improve an orphanage.
9wyZG TIL Sissy Spacek funded the early David Lynch
v1RKD TIL of Vin Mariani, a 19th century alcoholic drink that also contained cocaine. Queen Victoria, Thomas Edison, and Ulysses S. Grant all indulged in it, as well as two popes, one of whom appeared on a poster endorsing it.
WkMMd TIL that there are over 89,000 children on the Sex Offender Registry (some as young as 7 years old!)