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TIL that Heroin was created in 1897 as a patent cough remedy.

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VBRYQ TIL Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was the first man to die during a space-flight. He volunteered to pilot a hastily built and fatally flawed spacecraft alone in order to save the life of the man who would replace him if he refused — his close friend and first man in space, Yuri Gagarin
0wddj TIL overworked robots bleed red beads
MoO7 TIL there is a saw that will cut wood but not a finger!
QJ4ep TIL that since 1993, McDonald’s has had a dedicated delivery fleet on motorcycles in many Latin American countries
Ma58 TIL the man who made a fortune selling Ouija boards built a factory according to what the board told him, then fell off its roof and died