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TIL that Bayer promoted heroin to children and marketed it as a ‘strong cold medicine’ and 'the best cure for bronchitis.’

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VBQdD TIL during an 12 year period from 1822 to 1833, four future US Presidents would all be born within the state of Ohio - Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, and Benjamin Harrison
KJQR TIL that German architect Herman Sörgel had a plan to build an enormous dam across the Strait of Gibraltar to lower the sea level of the Mediterranean Sea by up to 200 m to colonize new territories and produce huge amounts of hydroelectricity.
aVvy TIL that when Stan Lee was writing the second issue of Spider-Man, he accidentally called Spider-Man Peter Palmer, instead of his real name Peter Parker. The mistake was never noticed, and the comic was still shipped out.
9w5G7 TIL A raunchy adult joke book was a bestseller during the 80s!
8eXDX TIL Dogs preferred to poop with their body being aligned along the North–South axis.