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TIL a physician who went by the code name “Dr. Feelgood” routinely injected JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mantle, Truman Capote, and Elvis Presley with methamphetamines that they became dependent on.

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x9Ob TIL the California capitol punishment program (death penalty) has spent $4 billion USD to execute 13 people since 1978.
XENeX TIL There is enough stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza to build a 3 meter (9 foot) wall around France
OG8jR TIL That North American Aviation took the P-51 from concept to working prototype in only 102 days.
KBL9 TIL Public school districts receive the majority of their funding from property taxes, not from federal funding, which explains why schools from well of neighborhoods are well funded while schools in poor neighborhoods lack resources and funding.
m1VGY TIL a message in a bottle thrown off the Titanic the day before she sank was discovered washed up on a Canadian beach in 2021, after drifting for nearly 100 years.