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TIL Coca Cola was actually made to cure Morphine Addiction

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woy4J TIL that between the 1920s and the 1990s, around half a million US prisoners underwent state-sanctioned plastic surgery in attempts to rehabilitate repeat offenders based on the idea that appearance impacted the likelihood of reoffending.
a80L0 TIL that in "The Colbert Report," the full name of the fictionalized version of Stephen Colbert is "The Reverend Sir Dr. Stephen T. Mos Def Colbert D.F.A., Heavyweight Champion of the World"
Egnjd TIL years before playing Dracula, Bela Lugosi had served as a lieutenant in World War I. At one point, he was helping protect a forest and left his post at a tree to give an officer first aid. When he came back, he found the tree to have been blown into many pieces and wept out of gratitude to God.
ZwMp TIL Devil’s Breath, scopolamine, is a drug that south American criminals blow into the face of victims to turn them into compliant ‘zombies’ who will empty their bank accounts & hand over their valuables when asked, then retain no memory of any of the events later, leaving the criminals unidentified
DQB4V TIL that many animals spend much of their time doing nothing, even those we think of as particularly busy. "If you look at a colony of ants, or bees, or any social insect really, maybe a little bit less than half of them are just standing around doing what looks like nothing."