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TIL the man often credited as the first person to synthesize heroin, Felix Hoffman, did so only 11 days after first synthesizing Aspirin while working for Bayer

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X7Yj TIL Police had a warrant to search for drugs in an apartment, found the drugs, and then realized they were in the wrong apartment
Br6Pe TIL The American WWII Bomber Flak Bait survived over 200 missions during WWII and had over 1000 holes from enemy fire during it's service.
glPb TIL-When Walt Disney was making Snow White as the first full length animated cartoon there were concerns that the “bright colors of the animations may damage people’s eyesight”.
x6VyD TIL in 2010 a Seattle-area county council candidate named Ubax Gardheere once threatened to blow up a school bus and mocked the children who fled the vehicle as "cowards", according to court documents.
rRgw0 TIL that the royalties for The Verve's "Bitter Sweet Symphony" now go to its songwriter Richard Ashcroft, after Mick Jagger and Keith Richards finally agreed in 2019 to grant him authorship of the song and all the future royalties it generates.