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TIL A snail’s venom could make a pain-killer 1000x more powerful than Morphine. And it’s non-addictive

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rR4Kd TIL about KidZania, an international theme park chain where children simulate being adults, including working at jobs such as manufacturing branded items in exchange for fake money
6pGm TIL Danny Lloyd, the child actor who played Danny Torrance in The Shining, was closely guarded by Kubrick during filming and didn’t know it was a horror film until several years later.
6EXYX TIL in June, 2016 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police seized one kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled "printer accessories". The shipment contained 50 million lethal doses of the drug, more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country.
mg6v TIL Superman couldn’t fly until the 1940s
l7RpG TIL of the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Cup, a trophy for the predecessor organisation to the NFL, awarded just once in 1920 before being lost. A replacement trophy was commissioned 13 years later, before also disappearing after 1967.