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TIL that people used to clean their clothes with gasoline. Requiring PSA’s warning people against it.

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98M TIL Yale researchers have stated that ketamine - a “party drug” often found at raves - is a “magic drug” for treating severe depression. Unlike other antidepressants, its effects take hold within hours rather than weeks.
6p4Y TIL that Phoenix is the only city to have a complete “sports equinox”, when all four major sports teams from a city play on the same day. On November 4th, 2001 the Cardinals (NFL), the Coyotes (NHL), and the Suns (NBA) all lost, while the Diamondbacks won game 7 of the World Series.
xbao TIL the average American child eats 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before he/she graduates high school.
OoQQ7 TIL The ability to read mispelled words is not based only on the first and last letter of the word, but also on the overall context and many other psycholinguistic factors. The original meme that made this popular actually used very specific words to show the effect, but it fails for other words.
Rj4 TIL French Texans planned to use a primitive submarine to smuggle Napoleon, from exile, into America and start another Empire there.