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

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xVVmb TIL one of the worst cases of child abuse. Genie, as she would become known, was a feral child when discovered at the age of 13.
9xdD TIL George Carlin did the voice of the narrator for Thomas the Tank Engine for 11 years
1a7jO TIL of the great escape attempt of Juan, an Andean spectacled bear in Berlin zoo. Juan paddled across a moat using a log as a raft, scaled a wall and then finally appeared to commandeer a bicycle before being shot with a tranquiliser gun.
beE4 TIL a black Chief Justice said after witnessing the jury trial system in the United States, he believed that South Africa is “better off without it.” Trial by jury was abolished in SA during Apartheid
j6MdQ TIL Nose blindness (also known as “olfactory adaptation,” or “olfactory fatigue”) causes your brain to let go of certain smells, like the one of your own house! Not being able to smell your body odor or your regular perfume is also an example of olfactory adaptation or nose blindness.