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TIL In 2018 the WHO classified ageing as a disease

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ykbw TIL that in the 1924 Tour de France, riders used cocaine and chloroform as performance enhancing drugs.
e0MVL TIL that the distinctive look of the Curious George books is because, to save money, the artist hand-painted colour separations for a CMYK printing process. Hence the heavy use of primary colours and fringing on secondary ones.
rROvM TIL that your heart rate slows when your face touches water; this is called the mammalian diving reflex.
kOpB7 TIL that Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) has their own police department, a jurisdiction that covers 34,000 miles of railroad.
8ev7G TIL: the FBI developed and sold a "security enhanced" android OS that was actually a honeypot leading to more than 800 arrests