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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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6nrX TIL: Oslo, Norway. Has donated a Christmas tree every year to the United Kingdom since the 1940’s. The tree is usually cut down in November and held up at Trafalgar Square throughout the Christmas holiday.
KaMG TIL on April 5, 1943 the Destroyer USS O'Bannon encountered a Japanese submarine. Too close to fire their guns, the crew threw potatoes at the Japanses sailors, who thought they were grenades, distracting them long enough to get distance from the sub, fire their guns, and eventually sink it.
ADwBx TIL about Mrs Chippy, a male cat that took part in Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Originally thought a female, he was given that name because the crew thought he followed the ship's carpenter, "Chippy" McNish, like an attentive wife. A statue of Mrs Chippy is on McNish's grave.
j6xQX TIL that feet and hands are very similar structurally. Each finger and toe has 3 bones and each thumb and big toe has 2 bones.
1aK6O TIL that Aldo Donelli played in the 1934 World Cup for the US and later coached the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Rams in the NFL.