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TIL the drug Scopolamine, aka “The Devil’s Breath,” is a substance so intense that it renders a person incapable of exercising free will.

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dDekE TIL that the band of Montreal is from Athens Georgia.
E1Nop TIL that in the '50s P&G used a supercomputer for designing Pringles to ensure that the chips' aerodynamics would keep them in place during packaging and that they would not break when being stacked on top of each other.
WkrE8 TIL that we eat plastics and it turns out we eat as much as a credit card in a week.
9Y5EX TIL, Scatman Crothers (Dick Halloran on The Shining) was the voice of Hong Kong Phooey. Richard Dawson (original host of Family Feud - the one who kissed all the female contestants) was also part of the voice cast.
kJrL4 TIL "The Diary of Anne Frank" was pulled out of a rejection pile at Doubleday by editor Judith Jones. After reading it all day, she insisted to her boss that it must be published. He said, 'What? That book by that kid?'