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TIL: Strawberries Can Also Be White Or Yellow

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P1Y6e TIL that resistance laundresses used super itching powder on German underwear and uniforms developed by the British SOE.
4kn16 TIL Ketamine replaced another drug as the go to anesthetic during the Vietnam War, seeing as it presented far fewer side effects. They originally used PCP.
L1xP TIL The first woman to break the sound barrier was an american WWII veteran. Her own government denied her use of a plane, so she asked the Canadian military. They loaned her a plane plus 16 crew AND shipped them to California so she could break the record even though she wasn’t a citizen.
6ZeJ TIL German Chocolate Cake is named after an American baker by the name of Samuel German, and has no affiliation with the country of Germany.
grmgD TIL about The Stoned Ape theory, which hypothesizes that apes might have consumed psilocybin mushrooms that kick started rapid brain evolution.