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TIL that codeine is broken down in the liver to become morphine and that’s why it’s such an effective painkiller.

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yQ5eM TIL of John Hinds. A doctor who would provide urgent care to crash victims in high-speed motorcycle events, racing through the track at similar speeds to those who crashed. He passed away in 2015 when he crashed in route to an accident.
ROK1 TIL while sexual sadist serial killer Peter Kürten was in a guillotine, he said to a priest, “Tell me… after my head is chopped off, will I still be able to hear, at least for a moment, the sound of my own blood gushing from the stump of my neck? That would be the pleasure to end all pleasures.”
lRE7 TIL that when a Holocaust denial group offered $50,000 dollars to “prove that Jews were gassed at Auschwitz,” a camp survivor, Mel Mermelstein sent them definitive proof. When they refused to pay, he sued them and was given $90,000 when the court noted, “It is simply a fact.”
78JXp TIL humans belong to superphylum Deuterostomia - meaning that during embryonic development anal opening forms before oral opening - in humans assholes literally precede mouths!
n89b TIL when illiterate people signed documents with an X, they would kiss the X before witnesses as a sign of sincerity. Hence an X at the end of an email = a kiss