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TIL Queen Victoria smoked pot to ease the pain of childbirth

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ajOo TIL airline pilots in the 1930s and 40s would navigate by listening to a stream of automated “A” and “N” Morse codes when visibility was poor. They would turn the aircraft to the right when hearing an “N” stream, to the left on an “A” stream and fly straight ahead while hearing a steady tone.
4ax6 TIL PG&E diverted funds for gas line improvements to executive pay and bonuses. Shortly thereafter a section that would’ve been replaced blew up destroying 38 houses and killing 8 people.
xV5k7 TIL that to stop advancing Japanese troops in 1938, the Chinese government breached a dyke of the Yellow River, creating a Flood which killed 500.000 and lasted until 1947
XED8 TIL every Chili’s restaurant has one upside down picture hanging in it, and it’s a challenge to customers to find it.
OoPpL TIL that Vincent Price signed autographs as Dolores del Río because he had promised the actress before she died not to let people forget her