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

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oB1ER TIL in New York, a bagel that is toasted, buttered, or with cream cheese is taxable. Otherwise, a bagel by itself is exempt from taxation
p8GdG Tuberculosis has killed some of the most influential people in history. Popular names include Pocahontas, George Orwell, Andrew Jackson, Franz Kafka, Jane Austin, John Smith, Frederic Chopin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
epM5J TIL that in the short story "Button, Button" (press button, get $ and someone you don't know dies) the husband dies because the wife didn't "really" know him and the author hated the Twilight Zone ending where the button was given to a stranger after being pressed
OoNxe TIL that, when Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war ended following intervention from the British military, the grateful public left graffiti in the streets of the capital that said, among other things, "Queen Elizabeth for king!"
d8lj8 TIL Gases produced from most foods are actually odorless. But certain foods result in the formation of sulfur-containing gases like hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, so when it builds up in the colon and eventually gets released, the result can carry a rotten egg-like odor.