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TIL that cheese can be addictive, as it contains trace amounts of naturally occuring morphine, that comes from the cow’s liver

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VMGbD TIL The United States has no official language at the federal level. Hawaii recognised Hawaiian Pidgin English and South Dakota made Sioux an official language.
vx64 TIL The US Pledge Of Allegiance originally had a distinctive “salute” to use called the Bellamy salute. It was discontinued during WWII as it looked exactly like a Nazi salute.
PYZLg TIL that there is a compound in cockroach shells which aggravates asthma which means that people from lower income families with roaches in their homes are more likely to suffer from lung complaints later in life
1nYV TIL English verbs used to have a “frequentative” form, which gave us words like “batter” from “bat”, “dazzle” from “daze”, and “trample” from “tramp”
kO6x4 TIL that Josef Mengele's skeleton is now used as an educational aid for students studying medicine at the University of São Paulo in Brazil.