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TIL that “runners’ high” is chemically equivalent to smoking pot.

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e08NJ TIL about Sally. The canine mascot of the 11th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. She accompanied the regiment through nearly the entire war until being mortally wounded in February 1865
o7vY TIL that Dave Grohl is the drummer on all three Tenacious D studio albums.
b9wEj TIL that the skin of tilapia fish is used to treat serious burns in Brazil. Human trials show fish skin grafts are quicker and more painless than other methods
YARv TIL that the CIA once owned dummy corporation, “Air America,” that operated as a civilian airline but was used to conduct military operations.
4Xjlg TIL the earliest known version of the Coca-Cola recipe was developed out of a cocktail of morphine and toxins being used by a wounded former Confederate soldier who had become addicted to painkillers