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TIL scientists still don't know how Acetaminophen works to relieve pain and reduce inflammation

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O0kL TIL Neil Young’s Silver & Gold album cover was made using a Game Boy Camera and Printer.
kJ1wW TIL that after Roman consul Publius Claudius Pulcher lost a major battle against the Carthaginians, his sister, Claudia, became infamous when, obstructed in a street blocked by poorer citizens, she wished aloud that her brother would lose another battle so as to thin the crowd.
kO4J4 TIL of the Oh-My-God particle, recorded in 1991 over Utah traveling 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light -The tiny particle had the kinetic energy of a 58 mph baseball (or 100 quintillion times the photon energy of visible light)
0wA65 TIL that all airplanes must have a green light on their right wing, and a red light on their left wing, to indicate the direction of travel to other planes.
GYoWj TIL that George Lucas originally envisioned the planet Tatooine in Star Wars to be a jungle planet, but the idea of having to film in a jungle made him feel "itchy," so he decided to make it a desert planet instead.