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TIL there is a clear nail polish that, when dipped in a drink, will change color if it comes in contact with common date rape drugs

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Ky9E TIL Adolf Hitler committed suicide 69 years ago today
GYpQ1 TIL during the Summer of 1858 London England dealt with "The Great Stink". A heat wave combined with an inadequate sewer system made the area reek of human waste for weeks. It lead to an overhaul of the sewer system that took 17 years to complete
B9WD TIL it was widely believed in the 17th and 18th centuries that man was powered by explosions, such that 23,000 times a day, a human breathed in air containing nitrous particles that, combined with the fire of the heart or the sparks of nerves, created the small explosions that moved the body.
ADWxg TIL that in 2013, police in the Maldives arrested a coconut for loitering near a polling station for the presidential election. Locals feared the coconut may have been imbued with a black magic spell to influence the election as there was a Surah written on it.
b9mA7 TIL that the word ‘gyrle’, now spelled ‘girl’, used to be gender neutral. It was used to refer to any young child.