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TIL that methamphetamine was nicknamed panzerschokolade (“tank chocolate”) during WWII because of how common it was used among German soldiers

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mnPY TIL Jesus is mentioned more times in the Koran than Muhammad
dy7K TIL that 24 rabbits set lose in Australia grew to a population of 10 billion in about 67 years
kOd47 TIL about Robert Landsberg, a photographer who upon realisation that he is going to die in the Mount St. Helens eruption of 1980 lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event.
VKQ TIL that Emma Stone’s low-pitched husky voice is a result of having baby colic, a condition of constant screaming as an infant.
MpJB TIL that because of Texas’s 3-strikes law, a man was sentenced to life in prison for refusing to return a refund after an air conditioner repair, ending a criminal career that had cost society $230 dollars.