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TIL Merck made a "hit list" of doctors who criticized Vioxx...The list, emailed between Merck employees, contained doctors' names with the labels "neutralise," "neutralised" or "discredit" next to them.

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b96v7 TIL that the US and UK directly interfered with Australian independence, effectively eliminating George Withlam, an advocate who opposed nuclear testing who was democratically elected, with a political coup to install John Kerr in 1975.
9wrv7 TIL during WW1 in Britain the selling of fresh bread was banned and all bread had to be sold stale so people would eat less of it
QJ95p TIL on the 3rd day of the 3rd month 1933 an earthquake at the 33rd parallel caused 3000 casualties in a Japanese area whose 30% of the population lives bundled up around one city.
JOLB TIL that a high school football coach got half the fans of his own team to cheer for the other team, because the other team was from a maximum-security juvenile correctional facility and didn’t have any fans of their own.
ne8EW TIL Ben Franklin was such an incredible swimmer that he was inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1968.