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TIL heroin got its name by being "the hero's drug". It was used in the US Civil War as a painkiller for soldiers needing amputation by hacksaw.

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BZyx TIL in 2009 Stephen Colbert won a NASA competition to have a module of the ISS named after him, but NASA opted to name it ‘Tranquility’ instead. They did, however, name a treadmill on the ISS after him. It is called the Combined Operational Load Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (C.O.L.B.E.R.T.)
9YGLM TIL that an Italian man faked his own kidnapping in Syria in 2016 to get ransom money from Italian government but he was kidnapped for REAL and was released 3 years later after his kidnapping and after returning to his country, he was charged with fraud.
d87rr TIL According to PornHub, the most popular day to watch porn is on Sunday, while the least-popular is Friday.
pgrN TIL of Tommy McHugh, who at 51 “attempted to evacuate his bowels quickly due to a knock on the toilet door,” suffered a brain hemorrhage, and unlocked a previously hidden talent for creating poetry and art
AZxd TIL: There are a lot of serial killer animals in Africa, including a 20 foot crocodile that has killed as many as 300 humans.