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TIL about Thalidomide — An Over the Counter Drug that Caused Birth Defects in West Germany

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Lk7WV TIL that Kool-Aid is the official state beverage of Nebraska.
X70D TIL That in January of 1982 a plane struck the 14th street bridge in DC. Among the many heroes that day, Lenny Skutnik dove into the icy water to save a survivor, swam 30 feet to get her and carried her to the shore. Both survived
P1bOZ TIL about Victor Lustig, a con artist who famously "sold" the Eiffel Tower twice in 1925 to scrap metal dealers in one of the most audacious scams in history.
6Ee5Y TIL on October 13, 2016, a man high on LSD, Michael Orchard from Halfmoon, NY, drove through his neighbours' fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbours' house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.
a879b TIL the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were introduced in 1928 to replace live zoo animals.