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TIL about "Soldier's Disease" AKA morphine addiction. Due to it's widespread use as a painkiller, the Civil War produced over 400,000 morphine addicts.

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E1yY0 TIL Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys was one of the most expensive songs in history. "The cost of recording was phenomenal: between $50,000 and $75,000." It had used up 90 hours of tape from 17 separate recording dates with LA’s top sessioneer's for the 3min 36secs song.
Wk4No TIL About The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black neighborhood with thriving businesses, great housing, and education system which was home to the wealthiest black people in the 1910's, before it was burned down.
5VrOr TIL that women are traditionally prohibited from entering a sumo ring. This tradition is so strictly enforced that in 2018 two women were asked to leave the ring even though they were preforming CPR on a man who collapsed in one.
4Abw TIL Henry III received a polar bear from King Haakon of Norway in 1252.
9wbPM TIL In 1863 Copperhead leader Clement Vallandigham was exiled across enemy lines to the Confederacy by order of Abraham Lincoln, who considered him a “wily agitator” but did not want him to become a martyr.