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TIL that cannabis use can prevent nightmares caused by PTSD.

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XE5Qj TIL that Orville Wright, of The Wright Brothers fame, met Chuck Yeager in 1945 and was still alive when Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947
W77bd TIL that the surgeon August Bier tested on his own assistant a form of anesthesia consisting of injecting cocaine directly into the spine, and to check how effective it was, he stuck a needle in his leg, hit him in the shins with a hammer, ripped off his pubic hair and even squeezed his testicles.
41LX TIL that the Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, and the Railroad Retirement Board are among dozens of federal agencies that have SWAT teams.
QJYo6 TIL Tchaikovsky hated to conduct by his own admission. He became obsessed with the fear that his head was going to fall off while he conducted. In 1868, when Tchaikovsky conducted his own Dances of the Hay Maidens, he held his head in place with his left hand while he conducted with his right.
oRYYL TIL: The Army developed a weapon concept after being inspired by a Pokémon episode in 1998. The weapon was designed to produce large scale seizures with a range of hundreds of meters. It can incapacitate people for up to 5 minutes. The Pokémon episode that inspired it caused 700 seizures.