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TIL the US and New Zealand are the only 2 countries that allow direct-to-consumer drug advertising, and that 70% of TV-advertised drugs have "low therapeutic value"

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awplo TIL the first lane marking in California was painted in 1917 by June McCarroll after she was run off the road by a truck. When the County Board ignored her idea of using a white line, she took it upon herself to paint a white line down the middle of the road to prevent similar accidents.
M7j9A TIL that A Time to Kill by John Grisham was inspired by the case of a black man named Willie James Harris. Grisham swapped the races for his novel
O1lg TIL that Malaysia and Singapore are the only two countries on earth that are allowed Visa-free travel to North Korea.
QePE TIL that “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List” is an actual scientific paper and was accepted to the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology.
Zko4 TIL: in 1984, East Germany gave 5000 fake gas masks to Iran