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TIL Vicodin is six times stronger than codine, which led to the name VI(roman numeral six)-condin

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4ndJ TIL L. Ron Hubbard, Scientology Founder, once fought a 68 hour naval battle with two non-existent Japanese subs after misusing his vessel’s SONAR.
R7Vvw TIL that the song Jeremy(Pearl Jam) is about Jeremy Wade Delle who walked into class and committed suicide in front of 31 people due to depression.
LGLv TIL in 2002 a few NASA interns stole nearly all of the moon rocks collected from all Apollo missions, then had sex on them
j6Kav TIL the 10th largest pyramid in the world is a bass pro shops.
E1Lg7 TIL that before 9/11, FAA regulations allowed small knives to be carried aboard aircraft by passengers. So even if screeners had found the hijackers' knives they would have still been allowed to board Flights 11, 77, 175 and 93 with them.