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TIL Vicodin's name is based on it being approximately six (VI) times stronger than codeine.

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WW44 TIL After Hattie McDaniel became the first African-American to win an Academy Award for her role in “Gone with the Wind” she was accused of being an Uncle Tom by the NAACP to which she responded that she would “rather make seven hundred dollars a week playing a maid than seven dollars being one”.
5Ve1B TIL Lydia Angiyou, a Canadian mother, fought off a polar bear bare handed to protect her son and other children, before a hunter shot it 4 times to bring it down
VMl9m TIL: Sea urchins like to pick things up off the ground to protect themselves from UV radiation and it makes it look like they are wearing hats.
nbBB TIL Lockheed Martin accidentally dropped a NASA satellite while turning it sideways, causing $135M in damages
Z8rKa TIL about the Chinese town of Qiaotou, the 'button capital of the world'. Around 60% of the world's supply of clothing buttons are produced there, as well as 80% of the world's zippers