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TIL Florida doctors prescribe 10x more oxycontin than all the other states combined.

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nWKbB TIL Shakespeare likely died on his birthday, April 23.
adBo TIL despite being only 0.2% of the world’s population, Jews make up 11.5% of all billionaires
MYxa TIL Goldman Sachs complained to Microsoft that Word always autocorrected “Goldman Sachs” to “Goddamn Sachs”
LQejv TIL Andrew Carnegie, then the richest man in the world, donated over $56 million to fund the construction of over 4,000 libraries, to further democracy
dDXmZ TIL: On November 1st, 1755, An earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal on All Saints Day. Thousands died as churches collapsed. Fire broke out across the city and people fled to the harbor, but there was no water. They started looting the wrecked ships and an incoming tsunami killed thousands more.