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TIL The United States consumes 99% of the world’s hydrocodone, as it has been banned elsewhere

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QJmvp TIL Popeye cartoons were ad-libbed after the animation was finished, giving the characters their "under-the-bearth" mutterings
16VZ4 TIL about the Battle of Cynoscephalae in modern day Thessaly which is the only known instance where the Roman side used war elephants. They won.
loo6N TIL Infamous sound barrier-breaking pilot Chuck Yeager happened to take down one of the world’s first jet fighters in WWII, so he gets to say, “The first time I ever saw a jet, I shot it down."
OgL4 TIL the Mona Lisa was painted with eyebrows and eyelashes, but they disappeared over time, possibly the result of over-cleaning.
yQlMX TIL that the British phrase 'blowing smoke up my arse' comes from 1700s London: the banks of the Thames were lined with bellows that were used to perform a 'smoke enema' on drowned londoners in an attempt to save them. It was not effective.