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TIL the largest documented overdosage of diphenhydramine/Benadryl was 7.5 grams, which resulted in the death of a 14-year-old girl. The patient initially developed seizures following by cardiac conduction and hemodynamic compromise resulting in death despite life support measures.

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16KrO TIL about a group of noblemen were (allegedly) insulted as "beggars" when presenting a petition to King Philip II's half-sister. They took the insult and turned it into a defiant badge of honor, wearing rough grey cloaks and carrying beggar's bowls.
67dm TIL that when a whale dies and its carcass falls into the Bathyal or Abyssal zone of the ocean floor, it can sustain a complex localized ecosystem of deep-sea organisms for decades. This is called a “whale fall”.
ynRV TIL that Asian-Americans needed a 1550 (on a scale of 1600) SAT to have an equal chance of getting into an elite college as black students with an 1100.
wLjZJ TIL that The Animals recorded The House of the Rising Sun in one take for £34 after loading their equipment on a stolen British railway wagon and pushing it through the West End of London to get to the studio on their day off
awx7A TIL That the creator of Madame Tussauds, Marie Tussaud, was in jail during the French Revolution, awaiting execution by guillotine. She got out under 1 condition: She had to create wax sculptures of the recently guillotined heads of her former employers at Versailles, where she was an art teacher.