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TIL the Partnership for a Drug Free America, who created the “this is your brain on drugs” ad, has received several million dollars from major pharmaceutical, tobacco and alcohol corporations

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16VXP TIL about panspermia, the possibility of life on Earth emerging from it, and the possibility of using it a way of seeding planets with our genetic materials for life to grow on other planets.
p60e TIL that the US government paid an average of $1.8 million to the families of the victims of 9/11
9wppm TIL Chevrolet’s first V8 was 288 cu. in. (4.7 L) and only produced 36hp at 2700 rpm.
rRd5d TIL in 2015 three inmates from a maximum security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate.
pkwO TIL when de Gaulle withdrew France from NATO and ordered all US troops out, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked him for clarification, “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France’s cemeteries?”