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TIL that Stephen King’s drug and alcohol addiction was so bad that he can barely remember writing Cujo. King’s family staged an intervention, showing him evidence taken from his office including beer cans, cigarette butts, grams of cocaine, Xanax, Valium, NyQuil, dextromethorphan and marijuana.

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xVeV1 TIL Medical errors kill more Americans every year than guns, cars and alcohol combined.
pp9b TIL that your neighbor’s ham radio can interfere with your wifi signal, and that it is the ham radio operator’s responsibility not to mess up your wifi, and if they do, you can report them to the FCC and they can lose their license
9Gxp TIL that Prison inmates are teaching testy dogs civility. There may be no better place for bite-prone animals to receive the constant care they need to break out of their own prisons. The men who train the animals learn responsibility, and acquire a skill they can use outside the prison walls.
x6eOb TIL that Kurt Tank invented the most streamlined commercial plane (FMA IA 36 Cóndor) by placing the propulsion into the fuselage - yet it was never built due to obvious flaws regarding practicality (see comments)
oGOE TIL that there’s a town in Texas called Earth, and it’s the only place on Earth officially named Earth