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

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mxW0o TIL about the Tsar Bomba, a Soviet nuclear bomb that was deemed too powerful to use. It was 1,500 times more powerful than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs combined and 10 times more powerful than all the munitions expended during WW2.
XG0j TIL Widely regarded as the greatest achievement in collegiate athletics, Jesse Owens set 3 world records and tied a fourth…all in the span of 45 mins.
yVvnl TIL that a solar storm in 1859 was so powerful that it caused telegraph lines to catch fire, and people could read newspapers at night by the aurora borealis.
pnAb TIL Chicago, nicknamed the Windy City, is named after the boastful loquacity of its politicians rather than the gusts that shoot between buildings
PNmn TIL that for around 100 years in the 16th/17th centuries, almost all European cartographers charted the position of ‘Frisland’, a North Atlantic island that didn’t actually exist.