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TIL, Naloxone, the drug they give to instantly stop a Heroin overdose, can also reduce the consumption of sweet, high-fat foods in obese binge eaters.

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6rXY TIL Japanese uses a large number of wasei-eigo, or English-based invented words and phrases that don’t exist in English, such as “cherry boy” for a male virgin, “virgin road” for the wedding aisle, “skin-ship” for physical intimacy, and “year of the coach” for Coach of the Year.
bpX4 TIL Dolly, the cloned sheep, was named Dolly because she was derived from a mammary gland cell and the researchers “couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s”.
YEE7 TIL some of the profits made from Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon were invested in the production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail
wxEY TIL Thomas Jefferson is accredited as the creator of the swivel chair, the first of which he created and used to write much of the Declaration of Independence.
Bga5e TIL dogs sleep up to 20 hours a day