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TIL a form of Hormone Replacement Therapy, Premarin, gets its name from the urine of pregnant mares (PREgnant MAres’ uRINe), from which the preparation is manufactured.

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x7mb TIL it is illegal in the state of Texas to own more than six dildos
7eZx TIL that Louis Armstrong changed his birthday to July 4th, 1900 in order to make himself appear more patriotic to his fans.
R7P4w TIL: A Hawaiian company that had the contract to dispose of illegal fireworks decided to manually disassemble each firework by hand with metal tools. (4 workers were killed)
pdXG TIL that the name ‘Aspirin’ was originally a trademark belonging to German pharmaceutical company 'Bayer’, but after Germany’s loss in WWI the company was forced to hand over the trademark as a part of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
E1gN7 TIL in 2007 the show Aqua Teen Hunger Force attempted the advertise their upcoming movie by planting Lite Brite devices of one of the shows characters all around Boston. The entire city or Boston went on lockdown thinking the devices were bombs in an attempted terror attack