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TIL in Russia many doctors “treat” alcoholism by surgically implanting a small capsule into their patients. The capsules react so severely with alcohol that once the patient touches a single drop, they instantly acquire an excruciating illness of similar intensity to acute heroin withdrawal

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oRlAR TIL, the Pan-European Picnic was a peaceful demonstration in 1989 where the border between Austria and Hungary was open for 3 hours and It was the largest refugee movement since the Berlin Wall was built. It started the chain reaction of the Warsaw Pact dissolving and the end of the Cold War.
d8EO8 TIL 15 years after having been shot and left for dead during a forced march to a concentration camp, physicist Bruno Touschek initiated and drove the development of AdA -- the world's first antimatter storage ring.
167Z8 TIL Reno, Nevada is named after the Father of the man who invented the first working escalator
4nJ5 TIL that beer brewing was officially introduced into the early Australian colony in a bid to reduce the level of drunkeness (mainly from rum)
awn0A TIL that due to shortages penicillin was re-extracted from patients’ urine during World War II