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TIL a drug 400-6000 times stronger than morphine was the gas used in the Moscow theater hostage crisis in 2002

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OGgjX TIL Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have actually hung a man. Serving as Sheriff of Erie county, he hanged at least two convicted murderers.
gGmW TIL that the future US President Millard Fillmore was captured by pirates when he was a fisherman and was forced into servitude for ninth months. He then killed the boatswain with an axe and led a revolt to recapture the ship. He then sailed the ship back to Boston were the pirates were hanged.
9Zar TIL of Prophet Muhammad’s Last Sermon where he stated “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.”
8W5K TIL Doing chest compressions to the Bee Gees’ song Staying Alive is a legitimate medical practice
OdBa TIL a study found that hot chocolate tastes best when drinking it from an orange cup.