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TIL In the past people used to feed opium to calm down crying babies.

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xEv1 TIL that Craig Ferguson (Late Late Show host) and Peter Capaldi (new doctor who) were together on a band called “The Bastards from Hell”
loBm1 TIL The Indian village of Meghalaya, the wettest place on Earth, has trained branches of rubber trees to create natural bridges over rainy valleys.
6E7lQ TIL the United States Government was in full support of the movie Independence Day [1996] offering real military uniforms and even jets until the film makers refused to remove Area 51 from the movie. The government withdrew all support.
9Yj8p TIL Mr. Potato Head was the first toy ever advertised on television and the first to be marketed directly to children, rather than their parents.
rxre TIL in order to reduce the number of squirrelpox-carrying gray squirrels, Prince Charles has backed a plan to feed the squirrels oral contraceptives hidden in Nutella.