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TIL that human saliva contains a “painkiller” called opiorphin that is six times more powerful than morphine.

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M7Je0 TIL Vancouver pioneer ’Gassy’ Jack Deighton’s statue was pulled down by activists in historic Gastown in 2022. Gassy Jack married a 12-year-old Indigenous girl named Xaliya at age 40, who ran away at 15 after giving birth to their son. Xaliya lived to 90 and still has descendants
6kAX TIL women couldn’t wear pants on the Senate floor until 1993
6ERrW TIL Scientists managed to capture an image of a newborn planet that was still forming in the disk of gas and dust around its star.
BgoDb TIL the name "soccer" actually originates from Britain. Students at Oxford in the 1880s distinguished between the sports of “rugger” (rugby football) and “assoccer” (association football). The latter term was further shortened to “soccer”. In Britain it never became more than a nickname though.
j6p4M TIL about Mortimer Taube, a pioneer in information and library sciences, whose "Computers and Common Sense: The Myth of Thinking Machines" (1961) and its analysis/critique of "thinking machines" is still relevant to today's discussions involving artificial intelligence