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TIL that dextromethorphan (aka Robitussin) is a dissociative drug, and works by acting on the brain to raise the threshold at which it thinks it needs to cough.

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PY5VZ TIL about the False Dmitrys. Three different imposters who all pretended to be Dmitry the son of Ivan the Terrible. Each of them fooled the nation into crowning them Tsar but all were ultimately found out and executed.
b9L9N TIL that stomach growling is called 'Borborygmi'
P4aJ TIL Eggs Benedict Was Invented As A Hangover Cure
QoQe TIL Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 100 cigarettes.
MeONV TIL that Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Jerome Flynn (Bronn) used to be in a relationship, which ended so terribly that they refuse to be in the same room. Consequentially, Cersei and Bronn have actually never been in a single scene together in Game of Thrones.