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TIL that truffles cause a chemically-induced euphoria reaction similar to that of THC.

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GYjeg TIL in 1943 after Naval intelligence provided them with his exact itinerary, US fighter pilots successfully shot down a transport plane carrying Admiral Yamamoto, commander of the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Yamamoto was believed to be responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor
6r88 TIL that when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, he willed the cities of Boston and Philadelphia $4,400 each, but with the stipulation that the money could not be spent for 200 years. By 1990 Boston’s trust was worth over $5 million.
b6l9E TIL for the last 8 years Ukranians have referred to Russia as "Mordor"
e0jlg Til that Hitler had once argued that German soldiers could do whatever they wanted to the Russian POWs for they were sub-human and the Geneva convention shall never apply to them
YpPlZ TIL that we humans have been dependent since 1977 on the blue blood of horseshoe crabs to keep our medicines safe. The crabs have been 'bled' for a chemical which is used to test for bacterial contamination in drugs. Finally, pharmaceutical companies are committing to a synthetic version.