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TIL the word “gypped” is derogatory slang created from the belief that gypsies are thieves and swindlers

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rRO6e TIL that on his death bed in 1936, King George's Dr issued the final notice “The King’s life is moving peacefully towards its close" and then proceeded to inject him with 750mg of morphine and 1000mg of cocaine, enough to kill him twice over.
DQ5AV TIL: The International Space Station has a separate Russian side rather than being entirely free-use.
8adBa TIL the CIA paid magician John Mulholland $3,000 to write a spy manual of trickery and deception as part of the top-secret MKUltra project, a CIA program that investigated mind control. Mulholland’s 1953 guide was supposed to be destroyed in the 1970s but an archived copy reappeared decades later.
GXGJ TIL that in 2008, Somali Pirates captured an Iranian cargo vessel whose mysterious contents poisoned and killed 16 of it’s captors. Although the demanded ransom was $2.5 million dollars, the U.S. Government offered $7 million to board and search the ship.
XERD6 TIL There's a little hole in the bottom of the pusher on food processors so you can drizzle oils into vinaigrettes and other emulsions.