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TIL in 1996 a woman going through heroin withdrawal crushed up a black widow spider and injected it

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479o TIL that White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War
7rxB7 TIL of the 19th amendment ratification flag, which was displayed 100 years ago this August 18th to commemorate the day women were given the right to vote. A star was added to the flag each time one of the required 36 states voted to ratify.
b54 TIL that David Bowie’s son was called “Zowie Bowie” until he was 12, when he asked people to call him Joe. He then later had people call him by his birth name, Duncan Jones and went on to direct Moon and Source Code
jxWp TIL the Venus Flytrap is only native to a 60-mile radius within Wilmington, NC.
E1QeX TIL- India is set to surpass China as the world's most populous country -- and much sooner than previously thought.