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TIL how 1968’s deadly Hong Kong flu left more than one million dead worldwide, and how doctors recommended those ill to stay at home and take aspirin, tea, lemon drinks, whisky or brandy according to taste.

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bXL9 TIL in 1983 a 61 Year Old Farmer Won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
oRMBL TIL the jazz standard "Pennsylvania 6-5000," popularized by Glenn Miller, was inspired by the Pennsylvania Hotel's telephone number from where Miller led His Orchestra in 1940.
R7Za8 TIL Graham crackers were invented to help curb masterbation
ANlRx TIL that the Huns had no known written language. Other than the names of famous Huns, only three Hunnic words are known to have been preserved: medos (a mead-like drink), kamos (a barley drink), and strava (a funeral feast).
ow8R TIL: Couples that cuddle can become addicted to one another. Symptoms of withdraw can occur when apart as a result of the hormone oxytocin, “the cuddling drug.”