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TIL Blue food coloring has been shown to improve recovery from spinal cord injury when injected into the spine of rats.

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Egb0 TIL that Liam Neeson used to be a school teacher and punched a student in the face for pulling a knife on him.
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PYPKw TIL that Stalin hired people to edit photographs throughout his reign. People who became his enemy were removed from every photograph pictured with him. Sometimes, Stalin would even insert himself in photos at key moments in history, or had technicians make him look taller in them.
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