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TIL PCP/Angel Dust was used as an anesthetic medication for humans and animals up until the '60s

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QlNd TIL that Mormon holy books were written in faux-King James English (eg thou goeth) - the language of Bibles from Joseph Smith’s time - and contain extensive grammatical errors (eg subj-verb disagreement), suggesting that Smith was trying to make his writing sound superficially “more Biblical”
69Xam TIL Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s throne took 7 years to make, costing 4X as much as the World famous Taj Mahal - More than 2500 lbs. of gold and 500 lbs. of precious gemstones were embedded in the Throne and yes, the Koh-i-Noor Diamond was just one of them
D10DD TIL: with regards to health, obesity is a far more widespread threat than malnutrition.
594Q TIL a sharp knife does less damage to the cell walls of an onion, releasing less propanethial S-oxide, the irritant that causes you to cry.
X015r TIL of a plane who made a forced landing on a Greenland ice cap in Nov. 1942. In attempting their rescue, 6 more planes either also stranded or crashed and it would take the survivors 5 and a half months of sheltering on the glacier until they were all rescued.