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TIL that cannabis use can prevent nightmares caused by PTSD.

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W7jD4 TIL British law in 50s forbade Jesus to speak or his face to be seen if he were a “secondary character.” His face wasn't shown in Ben Hur partly because of the law.
ORKY TIL Iditarod huskies have a ‘Maximal Oxygen Uptake’ (V02 Max) as high as 240 mL/(kg·min) - greater than Thoroughbred horses (180 mL/(kg·min), and nearly three times greater than the highest human V02 max ever recorded (97.5 mL/(kg·min).
W7GWN TIL that on June 15, 2018, Stephen Hawking’s ashes were interred in Westminster Abbey between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. During the ceremony, the European Space Agency honored him by beaming a recording of his voice toward the nearest known black hole, which will take 3,500 years to arrive.
GYbj7 TIL a robot named hitchBOT successfully hitchhiked across Canada but when he tried to repeat this feat in the US he was beaten to death and dismembered in Philadelphia
xV8nb TIL about H.H. Holmes, an American serial killer who built a hotel with hidden rooms and passageways to kill his victims.