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TIL Harriet Tubman used Opium to keep small children subdued and quiet while smuggling them on the Underground Railroad

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wLLrP TIL of 1,000-year old windmills still operating in Iran
kDQE TIL of United Airlines Flight 811, a regularly scheduled flight between Sydney and San Francisco that on February 24, 1989 had a cargo door fail at 22,000 feet resulting in explosive decompression. 9 passengers were blown out and killed. Two flight attendants were nearly lost as well
P1jWn TIL measles resets your immune system leaving you more vulnerable to disease you had immunity to
9wN77 TIL Before the bison were slaughtered, the native people living in the plains were among world tallest in the world. After, in just one generation, the height of Native American people who depended on bison dropped by over an inch.
6ab8 TIL the longest record for a human without food is 382 days. The man went from 456 pounds to 180 pounds.