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TIL early Antarctic explorers used a novel treatment for snow blindness- cocaine.

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47Ja TIL A 19 yr old pizza delivery guy helped save a man’s life by performing CPR on the customer who was turning blue outside the house. He said, “I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man.” His tip was 25 bucks.
w4O1 TIL that there used to be a popular children’s game called “mumblety-peg.” Children would compete to see who could throw a knife into the ground closer to their own feet. The loser had to pick his knife out of the ground with his teeth. Impaling your foot was an automatic win.
1a64X TIL That John Lennon wrote "I Am The Walrus" simply because he wanted to mess with people who were trying to analyze The Beatles songs (but inevitably people tried to anyway)
YpW9v TIL Yoda is supposed to speak in a weird way. I'm Hungarian, and I've always watched Star Wars dubbed until now. The Hungarian language is almost completely unrestricted about the order of words in a sentence, it only determines what the speaker wants to emphasize.
9wPam TIL ten years after the first courses in electrical engineering were introduced at the University of Missouri, the main academic hall burned down. The cause of the fire was attributed to faulty electrical wiring