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TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it

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YrbP TIL that someone built a Ferrari dragster that has a train supercharger.
JYPQm TIL the earliest born human to be photographed is Conrad Heyer, a revolutionary war veteran who crossed the delaware with George Washington and was born in 1749.