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TIL Benjamin Franklin did heroin

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nxyP TIL that a newlywed woman hiking on the Cook Inlet mud flats in Alaska got her leg stuck in the mud as the tide came in. Rescuers kept her alive using a hose as a breathing tube when the water rose past her head, until she lost the tube.
1RYO TIL Harvard once Expelled Ten Students for Being Gay in a Secret Kangaroo Court until Being Revealed in 2002
loAX1 TIL that Filipino churches built during Spain's colonial period used millions of egg whites in the concrete to make it more durable. This is also why Filipino desserts often use lots of egg yolks- many were developed to use up all the extra yolks from construction projects.
NXjYe TIL the motto of the Royal Society, one of the earliest scientific academies, founded in London in 1660, is ‘Nullius in verba’, which means something like ‘Take no one’s word for it.’
r00y TIL After the 1929 stock market crash, the US government deported millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans regardless of citizenship