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TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.

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DQdnP TIL the Philippine Span Asia Carrier Corporation holds the record for the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster (MV Dona Paz in 1987 - 4385 dead) before having four more of its ships capsize and total at least 1461 more deaths with hundreds more missing. The shipping line still operates today.
nWn6P TIL that JRR Tolkien never said Hobbits have unusually large feet. This notion was introduced by illustrators and later copied into other depictions.
yB6M TIL that two psychologists, inexperienced in interrogation, were paid $80 million for developing and running the CIA torture program.
5Ybnn TIL At Frank Sinatra's birth, the doctor thought he was a stillborn. Blue and not breathing, the doctor laid him on the counter while he attended to Sinatra’s mother. It was only when his grandmother picked up the newborn, ran him under cold water and slapped his back that Sinatra started breathing
dVVj TIL Paris Hilton’s grandfather is so ashamed of her behavior that when he dies his fortune is going to charity