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TIL Walgreen’s massive expansion from 20 to 500 locations in the 1920’s was due to its sale of “medicinal whiskey” during prohibition.

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DQxKD TIL Cleopatra had a special lipstick made for her, consisting of a crushed mixture of ants and deep red carmine beetles.
E1vk0 TIL in 1967 the Beatles paid for a full page advert in The Times calling for the legalisation of marijuana
pY7NO TIL about Leon Whiteley, a 26-year-old British man who cycled eastward from Portugal to China. 176 days in, at a teahouse in Kazakhstan, he met Noel Kegel -- an 27-year-old American man who was making a similar journey west
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