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TIL That "RadiThor, an energy drink originally contained radium. A 1oz bottle would sell for about $1 (US) in the 1920's. It was also claimed that it would cure all sorts of ailments.

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E1jXx TIL there is a constant, and wildly chaotic, vortex at the south pole of Venus. At the cloud tops, the wind speed can reach 400km/hour.
QJMlp TIL of the “Coffin Torpedo”—a small shotgun secured inside the lid of a coffin to “prevent the unauthorized resurrection of the dead.” The shotgun fired lead balls at whoever pried the lid open and were used as an experimental deterrent to the rising tide of body snatchers in the late 1800s.
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