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TIL that Kristen Bell was the voice of Gossip Girl

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6EQ6Y TIL that exclusive sale rights of colchicine, a 2000-year-old treatment for gout, was given to a pharmaceutical company in 2009. They raised the price 50x, costing the government over $50 million/year.
9QPr TIL smarties were originally not allowed to be white for fear that children would associate medicinal tablets with smarties.
kJG1d TIL a French occultist built a device to test the hypothesis that snails create a permanent telepathic link when they mate.
E1oKW TIL that George Harrison created a film production company to fund Monty Python's Life of Brian at a cost of £3 million, because he "wanted to see the movie"—later being described by Terry Jones as "the world's most expensive cinema ticket".
PKxn TIL a Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung