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TIL: In early 1980s, rather than opting for an all out strike, chemists' assistants in UK handed out prescription pharmaceuticals for free

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vjRR TIL There is a Redtailed Hawk living in Central Park for over 20 years. He has had eight bird lovers, most of whom met tragic deaths.
jMdN TIL The actress who played “Buffy” on the show 1960’s show Family Affair died of a drug overdose; one of the most severe the coroner had ever seen
JwNQ TIL that Kurt Cobain passed up playing a minor role, (i.e. the Eric Stoltz’s character), in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction movie. Also he thanked Quentin on the back of the In Utero album in the “Special Thanks” section.
4XbJo TIL Serial killer Edmund Kemper buried one of his victim's head in his mother's garden facing upward toward her bedroom. After his arrest, he stated that he did this because his mother "always wanted people to look up to her."
R5bJ1 TIL that before Salman Rushdie became an author, he came up with the slogan "Naughty, but nice" for British cream cake adverts.