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R7YWa TIL in the 1860s, before he invented Coca-Cola, John Pemberton created French Wine Coca which was wine mixed with cocaine, and when ingested forms the drug cocaethylene which is 20 times deadlier than cocaine itself. The drink was so popular that the Pope allegedly carried a flask of it with him.
NXAne TIL about the Soviet biologist Alexander Chizhevsky, who posited that movements of the sun caused major changes in politics and society. For example, Chizhevsky believed that the Russian revolution, along with various other upheavals and wars, was caused by solar cycles.
jGbj TIL that on veteran BBC reporter John Simpson’s first day on the job, he was punched in the stomach by Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
Y56x TIL absinthe doesn’t actually make you hallucinate
5Dlp TIL that crack pipes are sold as fake flowers in a glass tube at convenience stores.