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TIL: over the counter drugs don't actually even work

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OGXy7 TIL midnight screenings of movies have become increasingly rare since the 2012 Aurora shooting at a midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Wkak8 TIL that the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) sect of Judaism and the Quaker sect of Christianity are both named after the exact same word (Isaiah 66:2): "Yet to such a one I look: To the poor and brokenhearted, who 'quakes' (חָרֵד in the original Hebrew, pronounced 'hared') before my word"
6vYQ TIL that on its way back from deployment in the Persian Gulf in 2002, the aircraft carrier USS John Stennis stopped in Freemantle, Australia, where her sailors wore out the sex workers at a local brothel, forcing it to close temporarily.
9Y8aM TIL that cats have almost twice the amount of neurons as dogs and can be allergic to humans.
wLpRY TIL that QWERTY keyboards were invented to prevent typewriters from jamming. Following its invention, the Dvorak keyboard was introduced and was said to improve typing speed by 5-10% but still is not widely used.