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Today I learned safer ways to use crack cocaine.

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R509w TIL that the early 2000s Nickelodeon children's show, "LazyTown", was not only filmed in Iceland but also one of the most expensive children's show ever made (each episode cost nearly $1 million to make)
MeJwm TIL that April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day which was established by WIPO to raise awareness about how patents, copyrights, trademarks and designs impact daily life.
1ALV TIL in 1946, a Georgia Tech Graduate Student and amateur photographer rushed to the scene of a hotel fire and snapped a photo that would would win him a Pulitzer. The photo is of a woman jumping from the 11th story to escape the flames, and led to new safety regulations across the US