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TIL upon hearing that the Crusaders had lost Jerusalem in 1187, Pope Urban III suffered a heart attack and died

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wLVQM On Sunday, snow fell in one of the most unlikely places on Earth. Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, got a couple inches of the white stuff.
WJAd TIL that Taco Bell once tried to expand into Mexico by portraying their menu as American food. They even included french fries on the menu. It didn’t work, and they closed down in less than three years.
VBX9k TIL that in the late 1800s, pharmaceutical company Bayer was trying to find a safer version of their popular cold medicine, morphine. This accidentally resulted in the creation and marketing of one of the most addictive and dangerous drugs, diacetylmorphine, commonly know today as “heroin”
oOvo TIL we now know rats react differently when men are around than they do women, potentially invalidating 100 years of behavioural studies using lab rats
epP5k TIL about the Returning soldier effect: a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.