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TIL Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man

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n0po TIL Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, a one-time Grand Wizard of the KKK, later recanted his former racism, spoke openly of interracial harmony, and was denounced by Confederate veterans for it.
9Ypb7 TIL of Colma, California, a city for the dead. 1500 aboveground residents and 1.5 million underground. Colma’s official motto is, “It’s Great to Be Alive in Colma.”
BMVL TIL That before his television career. Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) sang opera professionally.
wrKJ TIL that a 2014 study found that mothers living within 10 miles of a natural gas fracking site were 30% more likely to have babies with congenital heart defects than those without.
kOw05 TIL about Dr John L. Leal, the man responsible for popularizing chlorine in our drinking water, and saving countless lives by doing so