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TIL Meth is a widespread domestic use item in North Korea. Scarcity in medicine led them to use Meth for stuff like cold, back pain, and even cancer

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0dPoL TIL of the Challenger expedition which catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species. John Murray, who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"
4kdmX TIL of Frank Hayes, a trainer and stableman never winning a race before . Riding a horse at 20:1 he is the only known jockey to have died mid race, remaining on the horse and still winning.
WdZ8 TIL you can make $120/hr letting medical students do pelvic exams on you
1ayOP TIL that three songs recorded by Mariah Carey in the period 1991-2 were the subject of successful plagiarism lawsuits. Other artists who have lost multiple plagiarism suits include Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Ed Sheeran.
JnV1 TIL Frank Abagnale portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in Catch Me If You Can escaped prison by convincing a group of guards that he was actually an undercover prison inspector pretending to be an inmate