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TIL about Oceanic the largest ship in the world until 1901 and the predecessor of the Titanic

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R5Kx4 TIL Coca-Cola still produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year and sells it to opioid manufacturers
1ogW TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.
6En5Z Til that Beethoven has "curious tempo selections" in his works that musicians today generally adapt the tempo from what was written. Historians believe in 1815, a deafening Beethoven was gifted an inaccurate early metronome by J. Mälzel that is likley to have been sabotaged/broken in a fit of rage.
eLnk TIL Musket shot (bullets) were made by dropping molten lead from a tall tower, allowing it to cool into a sphere on its way down.
pJ7p TIL “the annual savings on enforcement and incarceration costs from the legalization of drugs would amount to roughly $41.3 billion, with $25.7 billion being saved among the states and over $15.6 billion accrued for the federal government.”