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TIL Cough drops used to be made with morphine and heroin.

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yQPWa TIL that a woman tried to sue the Captain Crunch cereal company because she believed crunch berries were real fruit for 4 years before she found out they were just cereal.
6mWJ TIL that when our brains are tired, they are capable of thinking more creatively than when they are not tired.
GYJEj TIL a Scottish teen's mother had been nagging him for weeks to clean his bedroom. When Ryan Kitching finally cleaned his room, he found 12 old lottery tickets in a drawer; one of them was a winner for £52,981.
1anND TIL Scientists have discovered that the gut-infecting bacterium C. diff is evolving into two separate species, one group highly adapted to spread in hospitals. Researchers identified changes that allow it to thrive on a Western sugar-rich diet, evade common hospital disinfectants and spread easily.
rRdBM TIL in 1918 Russia, the Romanov family were brutally executed (with an even more disturbing burial). The Romanov children survived the initial spray of bullets and attack with bayonets because their clothes were lined with more about 1.3kg diamonds and gemstones each, as an improvised armour.