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TIL: over the counter drugs don't actually even work

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QNRQ6 TIL that when comic artist Dave Cockrum, co-creator of X-Men characters like Storm and Nightcrawler, became seriously ill from diabetes and pneumonia Marvel Comics donated $25k to his treatment but the help was contingent on terms in an NDA.
xYe7 TIL that in 1974, a young Tom Hanks wrote a letter to director George Roy Hill outlining how he should be “discovered” and that one day he will become “a hometown American boy who has hit the big-time, owns a Porsche, and calls Robert Redford ‘Bob’
VMLa4 TIL, that before he got into writing massive-selling thrillers, James Patterson worked for advertising firm J. Walter Thompson, where he is credited with coming up with the jingle “I’m a Toys R Us Kid.”
Mym0 til Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, is worth $790 million
NgeN TIL JP Morgan bailed out the US Government in 1895