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

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wLxMM TIL Pressure differentials can trap and kill divers underwater
9Ygm7 TIL that although canvas is usually made of cotton or linen today, historically it was made from hemp. This explains its similarity to the word cannabis.
ANVea TIL that Danish adventurer Torbjørn C. Pedersen began his journey to visit every country without flying on 10 October 2013 at 10:10 am, and after nearly a decade, including two years stranded in Hong Kong during COVID, he completed it on 26 July 2023
VM9Op TIL Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD, has given erowid, a web forum dedicated to psychedelic substances, a signed sheet of blotter paper that can be had for a donation of $50,000
5Y1v8 TIL in 1943 a farmer was preparing his land when a volcano started growing under his feet. The volcano, known as Paricutín would grow to a 424m high cone and engulf 2 towns in lava.