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TIL that benefactor of Nobel prize, Alfred Nobel was also the inventor of dynamite

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16B8P TIL that 30 years after cocaine was first isolated from the coca plant, it was first tested as an anesthetic. In 1884, Austrian ophthalmologist Karl Koller instilled a 2% solution of cocaine into his own eye and tested its effectiveness by pricking his eye with a needle.
Y7d87 TIL in British English they say "pyjamas" instead of "pajamas".
ANYna TIL that Japan is working on wooden satellites that can cleanly burn up without leaving debris when they re-enter the atmosphere.
yLvl TIL: The Barbary slave trade lasted for nearly 3 centuries. During that time, up to 1.25 million white Europeans were enslaved by African slavers.
MKXV TIL a zoo in Pakistan features a man impersonating a woman, portraying a creature that’s half fox and half human, that will answer any question for a dollar