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TIL The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators

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b9MBE TIL about Operation Christmas Drop, a tradition since 1952 where the US Air Force drops Christmas gifts from airplanes on some Pacific Islands
e0PeL TIL Sigmund Freud attempted to help his friend Fleischl-Marxow, who had become addicted to morphine and heroin due to chronic pain caused by having his thumb removed, by prescribing him medical cocaine. His friend became addicted to cocaine as well and continued to use morphine until his death at 45
0J0y TIL That Tommy Pickles’ mother was Russian-Jewish American. This means that Tommy Pickles and Dil Pickles were Kosher Pickles.
Eggv0 TIL about Louis Remme, who rode on horseback nonstop from Sacramento to Portland in 1855, racing against the ship-borne news of a bank run that would prevent him from withdrawing his own money.
ZpVaD TIL that Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts made his book Blindsight available under a Creative Commons license which tripled its sales