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TIL the Library of Congress has a tiny stash of cocaine that belonged to one of Sigmund Freud’s friends, and it was discovered in a donated archive more than 100 years later.

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NX6De TIL that Bea Benaderet, Jethro's mother on The Beverly Hillbillies and Kate on Petticoat Junction was also the voice of Granny in the Tweety commercials and the original series voice of Betty Rubble on the Flintstones. She died at age 60 in 1968 before any of those shows finished from Lung Cancer.
yYxl TIL Stalin ordered in 1941 to open the tomb of the 14th century warlord Tamerlane. There was an inscription that read “Whoever opens my tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I”. Germany launched the invasion to the USSR that very day.
MemRK TIL that Adolf Hitler did not invent concentration camps. They have likely been in use for centuries, as a method to supress/eliminate unwanted elements of society. Documented examples prior to the 1800s are however not easily found.
5eDp TIL the first scientists to produce insulin for Type I diabetes treatment made their patent available without royalties, permitting the rapid, worldwide spread of insulin therapy.
x6Plg TIL about Jay Traver, a University of Massachusetts entomologist who unwittingly documented her own case of delusional parasitosis.