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oBNJE TIL Bowie's 'China Girl' was written by Iggy Pop and is about China white (heroin) and 'girl' (coke).
6QYZ TIL the oleander is the official flower of the city of Hiroshima because it was the first to bloom again after the explosion of the atomic bomb in 1945.
9w4lQ TIL the Rapsittie Street Kids were originally called the "Bash Street Kids" but Wolf Tracer had to change it to avoid legal action
jNoRN TIL a 5 year old child was sacrificed in Chile after the largest earthquake ever recorded. The two charged were released after 2 years, as the judge ruled they "acted without free will, driven by an irresistible natural force of ancestral tradition."
vQGB TIL Opossum’s are the only marsupial found in North America. From eating snakes they posses a resistant to rattlesnake, cottonmouth and pit viper venom.