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TIL the bubonic plague killed an estimated 200 million people and it took Eurasia 200 years to recover lost population

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BrAOe TIL about the Veryovkina Cave, the world's deepest cave. Since 1982, a team known as "Perovo-speleo" has been researching and going deeper and deeper. In 2021, at a depth of -1100m, they found the body of a tourist.
6ErK8 TIL An elixir containing cocaine from the coca leaf and caffeine from the African kola nut was marketed in Atlanta. It was sold as a brain tonic recommended as a medication for headaches, alcoholism, morphine addiction, abdominal pain, and menstrual cramps. This elixir, appropriately named Coca-Cola
Zplko TIL Béla Kiss (1877 - ??) was a was a Hungarian serial killer who is thought to have killed at least 24 people. Kiss pickled their corpses in alcohol and sealed them in the airtight metal drums that he kept on his property.
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yV8pa TIL due to the rising popularity of jeans in the 1960s, one Texas legislator tried to have jeans declared the “official state costume” in 1977. His idea was ignored.