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TIL Morphine was named after the Greek God of Sleep - Morpheus.

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Y7vGZ TIL that killer whales are part of the oceanic dolphins family Delphinidae, which is part of the toothed whale sub-order Odontoceti. Basically, orcas are dolphins and dolphins are whales.
Wg7X TIL the panama canal turns 100 today
a8Na9 TIL that Winston Churchill is the sole world leader to have received the Nobel Prize, not for peace, but for literature.
Gb71 TIL an 18th century man faked his own death to see how people would react. When his wife didn’t cry he caned her.
b1ya TIL that in 2007, Quebec police sent provocateurs disguised as demonstrators to a protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello Quebec to incite a riot and justify dispersing the otherwise legal and constitutionally protected peaceful assembly.