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TIL the first modern pharmaceutical medicine was invented in 1804 by Friedrich Sertürner, a German who extracted the main active chemical from opium in his laboratory and named it morphine, after the Greek god of sleep

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VBJdZ TIL that the Indiana Bell building was moved in 1930 using good old ingenuity and planning while business went on as usual.
X00YD TIL the same artist, Jacque Louis David, painted the Death of Marat, the Oath of the Horatii, and two of the best-known portraits of Napoleon
J4YQ TIL that the pyramids in Egypt were originally white and smooth, as they were encased in marble.
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