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TIL Cough drops used to be made with morphine and heroin.
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TIL hitting snooze on your alarm can make you more tired than if you had gotten up right away. Especially if you purposefully set it early with the intention of hitting snooze.
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TIL about ‘The 9 Nanas,’ a group of women who secretly met at 4am for 30 years to anonymously help people in need, sending care packages with pound cake and notes saying ‘Somebody loves you.’
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TIL Owlsley Stanley, the rather famed clandestine chemist who manufactured large quantities of LSD in the 60's, provided LSD to the Beatles during the filming of "Magical Mystery Tour"
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TIL at the luxurious French brothel One-Two-Two there were themed rooms. One of the rooms, the Orient Express was a replica of a train car. It had sound effects and shook and bounced like a real train in motion. You could even have an intrusive conductor barge into the room and join in.
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TIL of The Bachelor of Powalgarh, an exceptionally large, man-eating Indian Bengal tiger, which was sought after and eventually shot and killed by Jim Corbett in 1930. The tiger was 10 feet 7 inches long