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TIL Dentists are still allowed to use cocaine as an anesthetic.

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kJByd TIL the Mediterranean Sea went into a cycle of partial or near complete drying-up from 5.96 to 5.33 million years ago, when the precursor of the Strait of Gibraltar closed off sealing the Sea off from the Atlantic Ocean. The period ended with a flood when the Atlantic reclaimed the basin.
wGG8 TIL that in World War II, American soldier John R. Fox died when he deliberately called an artillery strike on himself. Realizing that German troops were overrunning his party’s position, the strike delayed the enemy long enough for other American units to organize a counter attack.
ejZ6 TIL “Warp Factor” in Star Trek refers to a cubic function of the speed of light, so while Warp 1 is the speed of light, Warp 2 is 8 times the speed of light, Warp 3 is 27, and Warp 10 is 1000 times the speed of light.
oRoZR TIL That plucking your nose hair can trigger what doctors call the “Triangle of Death” and kill you.
ZpVVo TIL Lightning Speed is much slower than the Speed of Light. Lightning strikes travel at 270,000 mph, whereas Speed of Light travels at 670,000,000 mph