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TIL that black mamba venom contains a better pain killer than morphine.

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5oL9 TIL of the White Feathers Movement, in which feminists and suffragettes shamed men who refused to fight in World War 1
0dJkj TIL that Mickey Rooney condemned the slasher movie Silent Night, Deadly Night, calling its makers "scum" for coming up with a killer in a Santa Claus suit... then ironically ended up playing another killer in a Santa Claus suit years later in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5.
LQm7Z TIL that in the 1860s, Napoleon III backed the “Pantelegraph", an early fax machine invented by Giovanni Caselli in 1855 - over 20 years before the telephone. It sent handwriting over telegraph lines; 25 words took 108 seconds. It was frequently used to verify signatures in banking.
10pd TIL that Jeff Bridges spent over a decade trying to bring “The Giver” to the screen, and wanted his father Lloyd Bridges to play the title character. By the time production actually started, his father was dead and he was old enough to play the role himself.
P1X9L TIL of "Father Yod", a WW2 veteran turned martial arts expert turned Hollywood restaurant owner who became a spiritual leader with 13 wives and eventually died in a freak hang gliding accident