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TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.

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Oo4RX TIL that President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that the 1983 film The Day After "left me greatly depressed" and that it changed his mind on the policy on nuclear war. Reagan's memoirs drew a direct line from the film to his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.
E1yP0 TIL Beekeeping has been going for thousands of years and it was wide spread in the Levant regions by 1500 BCE. The practice was so important for the local economies that in the Hittite laws the penalties for stealing a swam of bees or empty hive was about the same as the fine for stealing a sheep.
LQLvQ TIL Margaret Hamilton, known for playing Almira Gulch and the Wicked Witch in the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz, was only 36 years old at the time of filming; a full 18 years younger than Billie Burke, who played Glinda.
loMEB TIL an actor in the 80s during a delay on the set took a gun loaded with blanks and after saying ”Can you believe this crap?” put the gun to his head and pulled the trigger as a joke, accidentally killing himself. A blank can kill you when shot at close range.
gNBX TIL superstar Romantic poet Lord Byron called his contemporary, William Wordsworth, William “Turdsworth”