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TIL that Sigmund Freud was a Cocaine Addict, and he personally prescribed it to his wife and friends

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WkeWd TIL in the 18th century "Donkey" became preferable to "Ass" for the name of said animal, however, it is completely unknown where the word "Donkey" originated from.
4JRN TIL that the EPA has approved the use of beer hops to help save the bee population in the United States and stop Colony Collapse Disorder.
RxK1 TIL ‘Cheez-Its’ are actually not squares, they are considered rectangles. Two of the four sides are 2 millimeters longer than the others.
nek7o TIL that in the 1960s, Mister Rogers launched George Romero's career, by giving him his first job after he arrived in Pittsburgh. Mister Rogers supported him and watched Night of the Living Dead, and Dawn of the Dead, and told George they were "a lot of fun".
OoMmX TIL an Australian fast-food chain called Chicken Treat let a chicken named Betty write out it's tweets by pecking at a keyboard. Apparently, if Betty did manage to hit 5 keys in a row to form a word, she'd get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's first chicken to tweet in English.