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TIL In 1936, King George V was injected with 1g of cocaine and 750mg of morphine - enough to kill him twice - to make sure he died in time for printing presses which rolled at midnight.

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x6ERB TIL the mayflower ship is believed to have been scrapped for timber and assembled into a barn in Buckinghamshire, England
xVa9b TIL Helium was discovered on the Sun before the Earth. It's the only element to be first discovered somewhere other than Earth.
b6g10 TIL that Sigmund Freud in 1935, the founder of psychoanalysis, refused to "treat" homosexuality, stating that it could not be classified as an illness
nW4PY TIL in the Battle of Kinshasa (2nd Congo War), Zimbabwean aircraft launched from the airport's northern part of the runway to bomb the Rwandan positions at the same airport's southern part of the runway. Average turnaround time was less than 5 minutes.
wpdo TIL The ‘golf ball effect’ that reduces drag on dimpled golf balls also works on a car. So putting dimples all over your car reduces drag and fuel consumption