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TIL drug overdoses from opiods increased 14% in 2014, killing 40,000 people. This is an increase of 137% since 2000. More people die from drug overdoses, says the CDC, than in road accidents: just under 33,000 people died in traffic accidents last year in 2014.

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KvB6 TIL that Kim Il Sung, founder of North Korea, had a baseball-sized growth on his neck. It was benign but could not be removed due to its location. Official photos of the “Eternal President” were therefore taken from a leftward angle to hide the growth. (Candid photos are in comments.)
p8R48 TIL A fan researched all the foods mentioned in Harry Potter and wrote "The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook" with over 150 recipes, featuring traditional British fare such as Yorkshire Pudding, Steak and Kidney Pudding, and Treacle Tarts
OoKQa TIL About a paper which models the expected "time-to-failure" of potential conspiracies. E.g. if the moon landing was a hoax, the conspiracy would have had to involve 411k people, and thus the model posits that the conspiracy would have been exposed within about 4 years
NXyR6 TIL Abraham Lincoln was the only president who was also a licensed bartender.
9wY0G TIL a lack of an Oxford comma cost a dairy $5 million