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TIL Coca-Cola still produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year and sells it to opioid manufacturers

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N7Alb TIL that some historians claim, but haven't proven conclusively, that the name “sundae” was created in response to the “Blue Laws” which said that ice cream sodas could not be sold on Sundays because they were to “frilly.”
Gy55 TIL: smoking a pack a day in New York state costs almost $450 a month or $5300 a year.
RGEw TIL that trial by combat may still be legal in much of the United States, having never been explicitly repealed.
4XoL5 TIL Latest research shows that infrared sensors in the dogs nose can detect heat
9YVx6 TIL that the only document with the taste of Cyanide written is the Suicide Note of an Indian Goldsmith who killed himself in 2006 by mixing a pinch of it in his liquor. He wrote “Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid."