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

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p8kN TIL Leon Theremin invented the Rhythmicon, the world’s first drum-machine. Today is his birthday.
goRL TIL It costs $44,563 to incarcerate a prisoner for a year in California—nearly the same price as a year at Harvard University with room and board
VMdJB TIL Ted Nugent's brother has served as CEO of both Neutrogena and Revlon.
yVJBw TIL Paul Dirac was the youngest-ever theoretician to win the Nobel Prize in Physics and Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at thirty. Dirac published an equation in 1928 that physicists all over the world regarded as wondrous as it described behavior of electrons while accounting for spin
Z8aJa TIL of the SS Tullibee, US WWII submarine that sunk itself when the torpedo it fired made a full circle and came back around to strike the submarine. There was 1 survivor.