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TIL you cannot overdose or die from simply touching Fentanyl Powder with your bare hands

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VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.
VMaXZ TIL Massachusetts has an optional tax rate when you file taxes (so you can pay more taxes if you wish), and it was originally proposed as a joke. “We were just being sarcastic. The next thing we knew, the legislature seemed to find our sarcasm relevant and so they passed the idea we had."
M7ZVb TIL Canada's Mount Peck was known as Mount Stalin from 1944 until 198. I haven't discovered why it took until then to change it, though...
ne9Ar TIL that in Ancient Rome, bestiarii, or gladiators who fought animals, often killed themselves rather than fight. In one instance, twenty-nine prisoners strangled each other to death rather than to fight in the arena.
JV41 TIL over 100 firefighters are arrested for arson per year in the US