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TIL Ancient Egyptians May Have Used Opium and Wine as the World's First Anesthesia—Long Before Modern Medicine!

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5Yb19 TIL that more than 30% of Indonesian children smoke a cigarette before the age of 10, thanks to Big Tobacco deliberately targeting youth in developing countries
QojX TIL Dustin Hoffman’s infamous “I’m walkin’ here” line in Midnight Cowboy was unscripted, he reacted in character to almost being hit by a cab.
YpXKA TIL that the woman who accused 14 y.o. Emmett Till of flirting with her admitted that she lied 62 years later. Till was brutally lynched by the woman’s husband and his cousin based on her accusation. Images of his mutilated body are credited with sparking the Civil Rights movement.
gMkrb TIL Natalia Molchanova, the "world's most decorated free diver" ever, disappeared while diving off the coast of Spain and has never been found.
Y7WnB TIL that Ireland had its own time zone for 36 years.