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TIL second hand smoke above 1.2 hour weekly doubles the chance of kidney stones

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Bg6jd TIL in an effort to produce a non-addictive version of morphine, Charles Romley Alder Wright was the first person to create heroin in 1874.
N7GaJ TIL that Peru and Ecuador went to war between themselves in 1941. Neither country was part of Axis or Allies. So, this was an international conflict that happened during World War II but which was entirely separate to any of it.
GAxD5 TIL That an Irish woman attempted to murder Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini in 1926, armed with a revolver, she aimed at Mussolini's head but a sudden head movement saved him at the last second, with the bullet only managing to wound his nose.
neBZd TIL that among the victims of the Concorde plane crash in 2000 was a 53 year old schoolteacher named Klaus Frentzem, who, along with his wife, had saved up for 20 years to be able to afford tickets.
Wkj5Y TIL of a Georgia school that hosted its first racially integrated prom in 2013