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TIL A derivative of Mustard Gas was the first drug used as chemotherapy to treat cancer

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0JDR TIL there are still people who practice the old Norse religions and worship Odin, Thor, etc.
wlDo TIL Hugh Laurie realised he had severe clinical depression after seeing two cars collide and explode in front of him, which caused him to be neither excited nor frightened, but bored.
oy6K TIL “Orange and lemon aromas are produced by chemically identical molecules that are simply mirror images of each other, so an orange is really just a left-handed lemon.”
1AQr TIL Orson Welles once hired an all-black cast playing MacBeth in 1948, trying to give black actors a chance without being funny or exotic, playing the classics.
8aenb TIL about a sex manual which existed in China that listed 48 different ways of playing with women's permanently bound feet.