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TIL Europe's 2003 heat wave killed 70,000+ people. In France, 15,000 died as morgues overflowed — forcing authorities to store bodies in refrigerated trucks

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vYdj TIL that Paul Bettany, voice of JARVIS - Tony Stark’s artificial assistant, has never seen the “Iron Man” films.
VMQbD TIL the original "laugh track" used in sitcoms was a physical instrument like an organ, was held under lock and key, and was owned and operated by only one man who knew how it worked. Charley Douglass used his "laff box" to create the laugh track for almost every sitcom in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
XEEAD TIL Nixon Aide Reportedly Admitted Drug War Was Meant To Target Black People
O4oX TIL Louis Armstrong asked Richard Nixon to carry his bags through customs for him because he ‘was an old man’. The bags had marijuana in them.
OoOG4 TIL vulpinic acid is poisonous to all meat-eaters but not to mice and rabbits