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TIL: Many birth control pills contain Folic Acid to prevent neural tube defects if the contraceptive happened to fail.

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v1xMj TIL The "Sarco" is a 3D-printable suicide machine designed by Dr. Philip Nitschke. The machine uses liquid nitrogen to operate and completes its function within 5 minutes. The only way to control the machine is from the inside, making the whole process voluntary.
EKN7 TIL: Elvis never toured outside of America because his manager was wanted for murder in Europe
RBV4 TIL in the game Fallout 3, there is a nuclear bomb in the middle of a town, which the player can choose to detonate. The Japanese version of the game disables this option.
6Y6l TIL: The Nazis never called themselves ‘Nazis’, as it was a derogatory word for a backwards peasant. It was the anti-Nazis that popularised the term.
5YZ6P TIL that In 1794 London an 18 year old student created a trove of 'discovered' original Shakespeare papers. Deed's, contracts, letters, poetry, and even a play that held much of London fooled for a year and a half.