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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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Z8v8p TIL that in the early/mid-1900s, a dish called "candle salad" was popular. It involved a banana stuck through a pineapple wheel with whipped cream dripping off. It looked exactly like you'd imagine.
WkV6X TIL 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a 'Harry Potter' book out loud without starting and stopping or messing up. If Floyd Mayweather accomplished this, 50 Cent agreed to donate $750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice. Floyd Mayweather ultimately declined the offer.
VMmZG Today I learned that humans have 3 cones that mix and blend to make all the colors that we can see. It turns out there is a special type of shrimp that has 16 cones. This means there are millions if not billions of colors that we can't even imagine let alone see.
DWvV TIL it might rain liquid neon on Jupiter and snow diamonds on Neptune
NXMPP TIL Stephen Colbert's father and brothers were killed in a plane crash because the flight crew were discussing politics among other subjects