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TIL that ZzzQuil and other sleep aids are actually Benadryl in liquid form

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JnN4 TIL that when Mossad agents discovered Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was hiding in Argentina, they kidnapped him off the street in broad daylight and smuggled him back to Israel on a commercial flight by drugging him and dressing him as a flight attendant.
ADawd TIL the Queen bee is too fat to fly after being pregnant, so when the worker bees want her to relocate the hive they chase her around the hive for week until she’s skinny enough to fly.
Wd6X TIL while the overall crime rate in the US fell 45% between 1990 and 2012, the rate of imprisonment rose by 222% between 1980 and 2012. The per capita cost per inmate rose 250% in that same time period.
0Kxj TIL of Beelzebufo, or “Devil Frog,” a prehistoric frog that weighed 10+ pounds and could have eaten baby dinosaurs.
OGGB1 TIL About an ACE German pilot who spared and escorted a badly crippled American B-17 bomber to safety. Later both pilots found each other after WWII and became friends until they passed.