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TIL Ketchup used to be sold as medicine claiming to cure diarrhea

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54oB TIL 1100 hostages were taken during the Belsan school hostage crisis. After three days of standoff, Russian security forces stormed the building with the use of tanks, incendiary rockets and other heavy weapons. 330 hostages were killed, including 186 children.
W7Ze4 TIL Johnnie Cochran, the defense attorney for OJ Simpson, was also Snoop Dogg's lawyer who helped him obtain a non-guilty verdict for his 1993 murder charge
QNewL TIL about Eddie Eagan, the only person to win gold at a summer and winter olympics in different events (in boxing and the bobsled), and who also studied at Yale, Harvard and Oxford, practised as an attorney and served in both WW1 and WW2
XEdxX TIL That if you were a head of household who was living in Texas on March 2nd, 1836, you got given, for free, 4,605 acres of land. Some restrictions apply.
oGZW TIL there is a crab that grows to be bigger than a human being. It’s called… Japanese Spider Crab