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TIL: honey is more effective at cough suppression than many over the counter cough syrups

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QJEJk TIL an Australian broadcaster banned an episode of Peppa Pig that taught that “spiders can’t hurt you” after complaints it was unsuitable for Australian audiences.
pYoJZ TIL that, after hearing Elton John had joked to Liza Minelli that “we need to find you a heterosexual husband”, her husband David Gest was so enraged he paid a hitman £20,000 to have Elton killed
LQ0Pp TIL that the first female on record to circumnavigate the globe did so twice, surviving two or three shipwrecks. She was a milk-goat with no name on record, just called "The Well-Travelled Goat" in her 1772 obituary.
PNwJ TIL cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched into space as a Soviet citizen, but returned to earth as a Russian citizen - he was in orbit when the Soviet Union dissolved on December 26, 1991.
j0WX TIL of Rick Rescorla, who saved all but 6 of his 2700 employees during the 9/11 attacks by directing people down the stairs using a bullhorn and encouraging them by singing Cornish songs.