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Y80B TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.
E1onp TIL that Phil Hartman (Simpsons, Jingle all the Way) was, before his untimely-death, developing a live action movie for his beloved Simpsons character Troy McCLure. You might remember him from such educational videos as "Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly" and "Here Comes the Metric System!"
6Eeg8 TIL There is a National Senior League for Wii Bowling, made up of over 1,400 people on 280 teams across America.
EgGWX TIL a giant island called “Forty Acre Bog” in Lake Chippewa has to be pushed by boats away from a bridge almost every year
GY7lN TIL in 1970 a heat sensitive call button enabled a fire to call an elevator to its floor killing both occupants.