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TIL that until 1987 all media stations were legally required to provide fair and balanced coverage to controversial issues

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NXdV8 TIL that in 2017 the Bison became the first national mammal for the United States
6ErK8 TIL An elixir containing cocaine from the coca leaf and caffeine from the African kola nut was marketed in Atlanta. It was sold as a brain tonic recommended as a medication for headaches, alcoholism, morphine addiction, abdominal pain, and menstrual cramps. This elixir, appropriately named Coca-Cola
JGBV TIL Christian Bale suffered from insomnia and wandered around Rome in the dark often seeing another figure walking alone in Rome. After many weeks he approached the other figure and it was Viggo Mortensen suffering the same disorder!
ewLL TIL that Jehovah’s Witnesses wrongly predicted the apocalypse in 1914, 1915, 1918, 1920, 1925, 1941, and 1975.
PNGE TIL there’s a 37% chance that the Cascadia fault will produce an earthquake within in the next 50 years powerful enough to destroy the Pacific NW.