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TIL certain states allow terminal patients access to experimental drugs not approved by the FDA to potentially save their life.

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OjKg TIL ABC only aired “Clerks: The Animated Show” twice before canceling it. They aired the fourth episode first, and then aired the second episode despite the fact that the second episode is a ‘flashback’ episode, and derives much of its humor from the fact that it flashes back to the first episode.
m1rQp TIL about the May 18,1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, which was the most disastrous volcanic eruption to occur in the contiguous United States since the much smaller 1915 eruption of Lassen Peak in California.
YNPA TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
X0GZr TIL the sky looks blue because gases and particles in the air scatter light from the sun and shorter blue wavelength light is scattered more than other wavelengths, so we see more of the blue than other colors. Sunsets are more atmosphere scattering most of the blue so you see more reds and yellows
0wXVA TIL that Popeye wasn't the main character of the comic strip he first appeared in. He was hired by Castor Oyl, the strip's protagonist, to steal money from a casino, but was later hunted down and shot by a hitman hired by the casino's owner. He lived, and was so popular he got his own strip.