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TIL Heroin derives its name from “heroic”, as it was originally marketed as a non-addictive wonder cure to morphine addiction

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KOW0B TIL that the last living survivor of the infamous RMS Titanic incident had died just 11 years ago.
OoQEe TIL about Larry Walters, who dreamed of flying since he was a child. He was going to join the air force but his poor eyesight disqualified him. On July 2, 1982 he built a homemade airship out of a patio chair and 45 helium balloons and flew for nearly an hour, reaching an altitude of 16,000 feet.
aj8b TIL French fashion designer, Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco” Chanel (1883 –1971), along with being anti-semitic, homophobic, and addicted to morphine, was a spy for the Third Reich.
KYvM6 TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records and Guinness Breweries are the same Guinness.
9Y5p6 TIL "To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day" was the platform of the 1912 Bull Moose Party championed by former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt.