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TIL Only in the U.S. and New Zealand is direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs legal.

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nMvP TIL that in 2008, natives of the Greek island of Lesbos appealed to a court in Athens to ban the use of the word lesbian to describe sexual attraction between women, claiming that the island’s inhabitants with their 3000 year old history are the true, original lesbians.
NyMN TIL the woman general, Liang Hongyu, after being wounded and seeing her intestines hanging out, realized she would die. So, she pushed her intestines back in, bound her abdomen, and then said to her followers, “Today is the day I die for my country!”. She killed dozens.
xVegD TIL Uber Hasn't Had An Effect On Drunken-Driving Deaths
kOp1E TIL that the kid starring on the film Empire of the Sun (1987) is Christian Bale on his first Hollywood film. TIL also that the song in this video is called Suo Gân and it is a Welsh traditional lullaby from c. 1800
KmvG TIL India has more people using the Internet than the entire population of the United States