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TIL cocaine and nicotine have been found in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies

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xVgVk TIL that Soap Operas got their name from radio dramas which were sponsored by soap manufacturers.
5YAZB TIL in 1957 a man crashed his military plane in the Sierra Nevadas and was lost. He emerged 54 days later and had a tale of survival, but with no wreckage found, people thought he sold the plane to the Russians. His wife left him, he was cast out. Years after he died, the wreckage was finally found.
gQZy TIL In 1942 492 people died in a Boston nightclub fire because they all tried to flee to the exit and jammed the single revolving door.
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