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TIL that the same man invented heroin and aspirin.

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LNxr TIL Kirstie Alley was the only surviving regular cast member of ‘Cheers’ not to appear on 'Frasier’ because appearing on a show which appeared to portray or endorse psychiatry went against her beliefs as a Scientologist.
wLReW TIL- A massive nuclear disaster occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico when a decommissioned radio therapy machine used for cancer treatment was disassembled by a cleaning crew. They then delivered the cobalt 60 to a junkyard which then used contaminated metal in construction projects around Mexico.
KY6b4 TIL that the Ark of the Covenant, if constructed as described in the Bible, would actually function as an electrical capacitor storing and discharging static electricity
0jjj TIL A Homing Pigeon named Cher Ami received the Croix de Guerre for saving about 200 men in WW1. She delivered a message even thought she was shot, missing an eye and and with a leg hanging only by a tendon.
VW14 TIL Mississippi leads all states in percentage of same-sex couples raising children (26%) even though it doesn’t allow for same-sex adoption. Salt Lake City leads all cities (25%) even though same-sex adoption was illegal until October 2014.