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TIL in 1982 drug dealers in California tried to synthesise heroine more cheaply, and accidentally created a substance that gave users late stage Parkinson’s disease in a matter of days

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oBDRE TIL the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai centre line started with the engineers hand clap (skip to 8:55)
aworM TIL about the Battle of Jumonville Glen, in which a young George Washington ambushed a French Canadian outpost. This became the opening battle of the French and Indian War.
0w59j TIL all the gold ever mined in human history is smaller than the statue of liberty.
R5dLQ TIL Portugal offered to give Macau to China as early as 1978, but China refused, believing this would worsen their relations with Hong Kong. Portugal would only leave Macau in 1999, two years after Hong Kong became under Chinese rule.
n9Lr TIL Half of the Viking warriors were female