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TIL Cheese has small amounts of morphine in it

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v1Nrj TIL Ancient Rome had a urine tax paid by its buyers. Urine was used for tanning, wool production, and to clean and whiten woolen togas. Instituted by Nero, removed after a while, and re-enacted by Vespasian. His name still attaches to public urinals in France (vespasienne) and Italy (vespasiano).
Z84NR TIL: In Japan, yonige-ya, "run away at night" or “fly-by-night”, companies service people who want to become johatsu, “evaporated people”, who are people who want to disappear and never be found.
R7Jj TIL the Yucatan peninsula is named after the Mayan phrase meaning, “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” in response to the Spaniards asking where they were.
eQKg TIL that the years 1961 to 1972 are referred to as the “Golden Age of Hijacking” when more than 150 flights were hijacked in American airspace. At its peak aeroplanes were hijacked at a rate of nearly one per week
BW9r TIL: That sleeping on your stomach can induce weirder, scarier, and sexier dreams