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TIL The cult that inspired "drink the Kool-Aid" didn’t actually drink Kool-Aid, they drank Flavor-Aid.

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9ggp TIL that President Calvin Coolidge was known as “Silent Cal” for being a man of small words. An example of this is part of a story that says that a matron, seated next to him at a dinner, said to him, “I made a bet today that I could get more than two words out of you.” He replied, “You lose.”
YpA7v TIL about the Living National Treasures of Japan - individuals and groups certified by the government because they are masters of a traditional art or craft that is in danger of being lost. As a reward, they receive a small amount of money from the government every year.
QK0L TIL that the United States, with less than 5 percent of the world’s population, buys more than 50 percent of its prescription drugs. And it buys them at prices designed to subsidize the rest of the industrial world, where the same drugs cost much less
wmkE TIL in the Harry Potter universe, Professor Umbridge was arrested for hate-crime after the events of the Deathly Hallows.
rLEx TIL Vultures have stomach acid so corrosive, they can even digest anthrax.