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TIL about a painkiller present in human saliva called Opiorphin which is stronger than Morphine.

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PY1Le TIL In the last 40 years, the overall survival rate for children’s cancer has increased from 10% to nearly 90% today.
E1xaX TIL alligators will allow themselves to be frozen in place in a pond to survive freezing temperatures. They seem to know instinctively just when the water will freeze and stick their noses out of the water, allowing the water to freeze around them.
E1dvp TIL that the Triceratops possessed a ball-and-socket joint at the base of its skull, not found in any dinosaur or any mammal today. This joint would have allowed it to maneuver its head almost 360 degrees, allowing movement to any direction in a fraction of a second.
x65Do TIL First act of sexual intercourse ‘was done sideways, square-dance style’
DQ9ZY TIL of Masabumi Hosono, who was the only Japanese passenger on the Titanic. While he survived, he was severely condemned in the United States and Japan. His account of the sinking of Titanic remains the only document to be written on Titanic stationery