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TIL that "heroin" was a brand name owned by Bayer until the Treaty of Versailles after WWI, when the German pharmaceutical company had to give up its trademarks for reparations.

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awdpN TIL President Jimmy Carter was attacked by a "killer rabbit" on April 20, 1979.
YrvA TIL that living in an area where you can see the ocean has been found to reduce psychological stress, even after controlling for factors such as income and neighborhood status.
vPblD TIL we don't actually know why testicles are outside the body; theories like due to heat fail since many animals like elephants or birds have testicles inside the body AND a higher internal temperature; others like ‘galloping hypothesis’ were proposed but all theories have failed one way or another
OGgPL TIL it is illegal to collect bird feathers in the United States under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 (MBTA)