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TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains

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GY0y5 TIL that up until 1912, Americans could place an order in the Sears catalog and receive a syringe, two needles, and two vials of heroin in a handsome carrying case from the German pharmaceutical company Bayer for $1.50
jVnQ TIL that when the New York Sun was relaunched in 2002, its first edition carried the solution to the last crossword puzzle that the earlier Sun published before it folded in 1950.
QYZ9 TIL the earth’s atmosphere used to contain much more oxygen creating gigantic bugs and insects
QJOlL TIL that steve jobs' biological father is Syrian and he was adopted as a kid.
NJE1 TIL that Charles de Gaulle said of France, “How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?”