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TIL that Caffeine is a pain killer, and when used with other pain killers, such as Acetaminophen or NSAIDs, potentiates their effects significantly.

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OGMeX TIL: The Tully Monster, a prehistoric animal so bizarre that scientists still can't agree on how to classify it.
7rOvP TIL the reason clocks run clockwise is because it is the way shadows move across a sundial in the northern hemisphere. The first clocks were designed that way because people wee just used to it.
VgQD TIL Alec Baldwin offered to cut his salary by 20% in order for 30 Rock to continue through season 8.
QNQ8L TIL After poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal, the perpetrators disposed of the evidence (disguised as a perfume bottle) in a rubbish bin. The bottle was recovered and brought home where a woman applied it to her skin and she later died
woLmM TIL about the tragic launching of the HMS Albion in 1898, the first disaster caught on film. 38 people drowned by a bow wave caused by the launch.