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TIL of the Harry Potter prequel manuscript which was auctioned in 2008 and stolen in 2017. It remains missing.

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ANQkg TIL about Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, a medicine used in the early 1900s to quiet infants and teething children. Popular in the US and UK it took twenty years of doctors' complaints before it was withdrawn from the market for being a "baby killer." The main ingredient was morphine.
GYJO7 TIL that nearly 150 years later, someone was killed by a cannonball from the American Civil War
QNKAE TIL The Victorian men used the special teacup to protect their mustache from dunking into their tea.
g5jy TIL, the FBI once circulated to police departments, people who make frequent reference to the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights may be terrorists
9mP7 TIL Over 2,000 historic Armenian sites were purposely destroyed by the Turkish state between 1923 and 1974; this happened during Turkey’s so-called “secular” era. In addition, a lot of literature was lost: Turks used paper from science books to wrap cheese and dates in the bazaars.