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TIL: Babe Ruth was regularly called “Nigger Lips”

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ePa4 TIL that there are vaccines against addiction: drugs are being developed that eliminate the pleasurable effects of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and nicotine.
X6vj TIL that the British government’s advisor on illegal drugs was fired in 2009 after arguing that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol and tobacco.
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