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TIL That Bayer’s testing group rejected Aspirin for clinical trials because of its potential to “weaken the heart” and instead decided to pursue developing heroin.

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5VmNR TIL Americans donate the largest amount of money to charity as percent of GDP by a large margin
Wpj9 TIL in 2013, Costa Rica announced it would close all its zoos, effective March 2014, and free animals either to the wild or to safe “retirement” shelters. Officials say this is a response to “a change of environmental conscience among Costa Ricans”
LkJyd TIL The Beechcraft Bonanza airplane is nicknamed "the doctor killer". This is due to the number of wealthy professionals who take up flying as a hobby and end up crashing in it.
4X4v6 TIL that, after she wanted to marry a lawyer whom her mother disapproved of, Blanche Monnier was locked by her mother in her room for 25 years--being discovered and rescued by the police in 1901.
N5ee TIL that in Australia 4,000 people once rioted because a pub closed.