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TIL - “Rapper’s Delight”, at over 14 minutes long, was recorded in one take.

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LkMYp TIL thanks to the dedicated evaluation by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey (a young pharmacologist who had just started working at the Food and Drug Administration), Thalidomide was banned in the USA and worldwide in 1962. The drug caused massive birth defects such as missing ears and flipper limbs.
nAm9 Today I learned that in 2013 we dropped thousands of parachuting dead mice packed with painkillers onto snakes in Guam.
yeaJ TIL someone developed a drink that contains all the nutrients required for human metabolism, and is incredibly cheap. He calls it Soylent.
b9Pn0 TIL Crazy Horse was raised by his aunt, Good Looking Woman.
Brd4x TIL that Burning Mountain in Australia contains an underground coal fire that has burned for approximately 6000 years and is the oldest known coal fire.