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TIL When it Comes to Coughs, Chocolate Is More Effective than Codeine

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GKbQ TIL The screams of those being gassed during the Holocaust were so disturbing that in order to stifle them, SS Officers would rev motorcycles as far as they would go. This proved to be futile, so they built gas chambers offsite.
j6kEE TIL big cats are fascinated by the smell of perfumes containing civetone, most notably Obsession by Calvin Klein. This fact allows researchers to lure big cats into the view of wildlife cameras for research purposes.
1vGO TIL In South Park’s first season’s, when high-profile celebs offered to be on the show, Parker and Stone purposefully gave them small, non-speaking parts. Jerry Seinfeld withdrew his offer to be on the show when he was given the role of Turkey #2 in the Thanksgiving episode.
VBPm TIL that 35 million years ago, with the force of millions of nuclear weapons, an asteroid slammed into earth instantly turning the ground below it into diamonds
ANMKd TIL that it cost NASA more than $50 million to fix a 2-micron deviation in the Hubble's primary mirror to develop COSTAR, which basically acted as "glasses" for the telescope