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TIL: Nuclear powered pacemakers were briefly produced and 9 people still have them inside. When they die the pacemakers and their Plutonium have to be returned to the Department of Energy.

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P4Le TIL milk has peptides that mimic the effect of opiates in the brain causing very real cravings and opiate withdrawals for milk lovers.
8ee7G TIL about “Bonin English” — a dialect that is an English/Japanese fusion, spoken on the Ogasawara Islands. Previously uninhabited, the islands’ first modern inhabitants were anglophones in the 19th century. The islands went back and forth between the UK, US, and Japan. Today, they are part of Japan.
NxAN TIL a 2-year-old girl was placed in foster care after her parents got busted with marijuana. Shortly after, she suffered fatal head injuries at the hands of her new foster parents.
D1X7e TIL that Townes Van Zandt's 1971 song "Delta Mama Blues" is an ode to Robitussin DM cough syrup aka lean
kOrR4 TIL one of the 26 known copies of the United States’ Declaration of Independence was purchased for $4. The man purchased an ugly painting for the frame & found the declaration behind the painting. He later sold it at auction for $2.42 million.