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TIL that the first president of Zimbabwe was President Banana

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WkYV9 TIL Naloxone (Narcon) has became a mainstay of hospital emergency rooms and medical wards. It can be injected or sprayed up the nose, and can stop/reverse a heroin overdose in under two minutes. It’s so vital the World Health Organization placed the drug on its list of essential medications in 1983.
LkmoZ TIL Mao Zedong is recorded as telling a comrade that "I eat a lot and I excrete a lot"
6Ek4Z Today I learned that a Victorian man in 1875 died after accidentally swallowing a mouse. "The mouse began to tear and bite inside the man's throat and chest, and the result was that the unfortunate fellow died after a little time in horrible agony."
W74ro TIL that duo to a loophole in Kentucky's law, a wedding officiated by Cocaine Bear can't be invalidated if the parties believe that it had the authority to solemnize it
M701m TIL of Cassiopea xamachana. A species of upside-down jellyfish capable of spawning venom filled, homing torpedoes that swims independently from the animal and allows it to kill/stun prey from a distance.