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TIL that Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup was a patent medicine marketed to calm small children which contained a dangerous amount of morphine and alcohol.

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4X7NN TIL of Henry the Young King, son to Henry II of England, who was crowned co-king in 1170, theoretically to rule in association with his father, and again in 1172. Although the Young King received no share of his father’s power, he was called Henry III by contemporaries and certain later chroniclers.
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