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TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.

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eZEJ TIL Costco sells approximately 60,000,000 rotisserie chickens every year.
4X4Zg TIL that the estate of Jimi Hendrix no longer permits use of his music in films involving the abuse of drugs or alcohol. The last film to do so was ‘Withnail and I’ (1987).
neyxP TIL the 'metallic' smell you can when handling coins etc is actually from the oils on your skin being catalysed by the metal
xVWMk TIL about the traffic-inducing game of “leapfrog” played between truck drivers, where they get points for accumulating “bugs” (car drivers) stuck behind them as they do their “leap” in the left lane past the other trucks. The record is a 57-bug trail of cars stuck behind the leaping truck for 29 min
1aRo7 TIL that a conman, J.D. McMahon, managed to collect $200,000 from investors in building a 40 ft-tall (480 in or 12 m) building- the infamous Newby-McMahon Building, also known as the world's littlest skyscraper. McMahon neglected to specify that the building’s scale was measured in inches, not feet.