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TIL Eye Drops Can Kill You

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nM87 TIL before alarm clocks, people were employed as “knocker uppers” to go around and knock on doors to wake people up.
8e6gP TIL that actor Gary Cooper was friends with Ernest Hemingway, and Hemingway based the main character of his novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" on Cooper. When they later made a film out of the book, Cooper played the role that was based on him in the first place.
ZnOo TIL that the world’s largest brothel, with 500 rooms, was built in Seattle in 1910. It was so scandalous that the mayor lost his job, and the building became the ordinary Lester Apartments. It was destroyed 40 years later when an air force bomber crashed into it.
XOOj TIL that in 1808, a gentlemen’s duel took place at 2,000 ft. in a pair of hot air balloons. Each man used a blunderbuss to attempt to destroy the others balloon.
p7eG TIL The fastest man made object in history might just be a manhole cover over a nuclear test bunker. Last seen going 41 miles per second, the steel plate was never found.