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TIL commercials for prescription drugs were effectively banned from American television until the FDA eased restrictions in 1997

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neWyr TIL that your US mailbox is the property of the US postal service; no one else is allowed to use it. FedEx exists because of a bike courier exception for "extremely urgent" mail. USPS has forced Equifax to pay a $30,000 fine for FedEx use that was not extremely urgent.
mxBJv TIL that fishballs were invented when China's first emperor demanded fish with every meal. He threatened to execute the chef if he found bones in his food. The chef mashed the fish to remove bones quicker, ran out of time, panicked, so he squeezed the fish paste into balls and threw it in some soup.
R8g9 TIL that if we took all the bubble wrap on Earth to Mars and popped it, there would be enough air released into the atmosphere to allow a city of 1 million people to live for 37 seconds.
QJwd9 TIL An artist recreated 60 pieces of fake art from Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. Then the art was sold for more than $80 million. 10 lawsuits were filed and a prestigious 165-year-old art gallery was closed once the art was found to be fraudulent.
BrrmK TIL Shelley Duvall from the Shining is struggling with mental illness