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TIL Kellogg’s Raisin Brain has more sugar than Frosted Flakes

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J1wGV TIL: Asthmador was an asthma treatment in the US in the 1950s. It was made up of 3 toxic/hallucinogenic compounds belladonna (atropine), stramonium (nightshade/jimson weed), and potassium perchlorate (oxidant commonly used in fireworks). One common delivery method for Asthmador - cigarettes!
XVvP TIL that all of the 14 billion publicly accessible web sites are connected to each other by 19 clicks or less.
bOB4 TIL Peter The Great accepted his wife be executed after she killed her newborn baby. When he showed up at the execution, the crowd assumed he’d stop the execution, but instead he watched her executed, kissed her detached head and used it to explain to the crowd the intracacies of neck anatomy.
78x1b TIL about Mount Athos, a 130 sq mi monastic autonomous region in Greece with a population of 2,000 East Orthodox monks. Women and most female domestic animals are banned by religious tradition.
mVgv TIL wrestler John Cena has granted over 300 wishes for the Make A Wish foundation, the most of any to date.