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TIL There is not enough evidence to determine whether cough medicines work, even though some people may find them useful

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DQ0GJ TIL that Primm in Fallout New Vegas is a real Nevada town, and there is a Buffalo Bill casino there that has an actual rollercoaster.
p8enA TIL, Judy, a dog that spent a good part of world war II in a japanese prison camp protecting prisoners from being beaten - by taking the beating her self. Judy recieved the Dickin medal for her effort
7Kb TIL an El Salvadorian diplomat secretly issued false Salvadoran papers to 13000 Jews saving in total 40000 lives. He only gave one interview before his death and has received little recognition.
D1eZv TIL Seattle's Space Needle is an example of Googie architecture, a type that flourished in the post WWII era and was parodied on The Jetsons. It was named for the West Hollywood Googie's Coffee Shop designed in 1949 by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright.
VBwAk TIL From 1812-1814, Joseph Fraunhofer studied the spectrum of solar light passing through a thin slit and recorded 500 dark lines. Newton missed seeing dark lines in 1666 because he shone light from the whole solar disk through a circular hole into his prisms