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TIL Cocaine is still used in surgeries and hospitals as a local anesthetic for the nose and mouth during procedures, and can be used to stem nasal hemorrhaging in an emergency situation. It is still endorsed by The American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery for medical use.

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o8MK TIL that beer hops contain “Hop Beta Acids” that research has shown to kill varroa mites, a parasite killing off honey bee colonies, without any affect on bees. The research has been so promising that the EPA has approved its use without further testing, due to the long history of hops in brewing.
rN7mo TIL that while searching for the three missing civil rights workers in 1964 (Goodman, Chaney and Schwerner) in the Bogue Chitto swamp near Philadelphia Mississippi, the Navy searchers failed to find the civil rights workers, but did find eight other bodies.
oRWlo TIL Boeing built subway cars for Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco when military contracts dried up after the Vietnam War
KONA4 TIL before Judy Garland landed the role of Dorothy Gale, it was offered to Shirley Temple, and Deanna Durbin. Temple would have played the role if her studio let her out of her contract, and Durbin flat out refused the role.
e0xp4 TIL Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado in 20 years planted 2.7 million trees to afforest part of The Atlantic Forest & resulted in 1,500 acres of rainforest being recovered with 293 of plants, 15 reptiles, 172 bird, 15 amphibian & 33 mammal species have returned.