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TIL George Carlin’s monologue about education, the American Dream and our ‘economy’ becomes truer and truer every day.

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QnQ9 TIL that nitrous oxide was used primarily as a recreational drug in English parties for over 4 decades before doctors saw its potential in medicine.
XJ1R Today I learned that puppy breath smells good because their esophagus is still developing. You smell gas from the fresh food and sweet milk they just ate as opposed to bile or plaque in an adult dog’s breath.
pREe TIL that Hawaiian Water-Powered Jet Packs Pose a Threat to Fishes and Coral Reef
WlWo TIL that in a study of placebos, 30% of patients who received the placebos instead of chemotherapy experienced hair loss
WJMA TIL Dock Ellis once threw a no-hitter while tripping balls on LSD. He claimed to have seen Richard Nixon and Jimi Hendrix, and the footage of the game was locked away because it was “an embarrassment to the league.”