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TIL: about Disulfiram (Antabuse) which is a drug used to treat Alcoholism. It causes acute sensitivity to alcohol, producing hangover like symptoms almost immediately after consuming any amount of alcohol.

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rZm0 TIL that President Herbert Hoover who resided over the beginning of the Great Depression had never once been elected to a government office before becoming President of the United States.
e0lE4 TIL abou the paradox of intolerance, which states that a society with unlimited tolerance will be destroyed by the intolerant because said society would tolerate them.
B7we TIL in the 1950’s, a Texas white man named John Howard Griffin went through extensive physical changes to become a black man and traveled for six weeks on buses through the segregated south. After publishing his experiences, hostility and threats forced him to move to Mexico.
xW15 TIL that Dan Akroyd wrote the character Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters) for John Belushi. After Belushi’s death, the part was rewritten for Bill Murray, and the character of Slimer became Belushi’s contribution to the film, since Akroyd based the character on Belushi’s wild personality.
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