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TIL that all the local anaesthetic drug names end in “-caine” because cocaine was one of the first local anaesthetics.

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78rjr TIL that trappist cheese is cheese that is made by monks. Many monastaries made their own cheese so that they could feed themselves and sell it. This practice has origins in 18th century France.
m05Y TIL 92 years ago today started the largest uprising in U.S. history since the Civil War, when over 10,000 armed coal miners attempted to take down lawmakers in an attempt to unionize West Virginian mine workers. The U.S. Army intervened, and the workers lost.
lo9k5 TIL actor Scott Glenn refused to reprise his Silence of The Lambs role of FBI agent Jack Crawford in the subsequent movies because the research he conducted for the original film disturbed him so much. It still apparently causes him anxiety to this day.
LNdQ TIL: Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
OGDkX TIL about Mark Zborowski, an NKVD agent who infiltrated Trotsky's organization in Paris, murdered Trotsky's son, moved to the US where he continued to infiltrate Trotsky's organization. He joined Harvard as a researcher, was later tried and convicted as a spy, and then resumed his academic career.