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TIL that in the 18th century medical professionals used tobacco smoke enemas to treat ailments from the cold to cholera. Before the use of bellows became the norm the people administering the procedure needed to be careful if they started coughing and accidentally inhaling enema particulates.

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Brvrd TIL In 2011 two Hollywood films opened just 5 months apart from each other that had the exact same runtime, exact same plot and same ending. “No Strings Attached” with Ashton Kutcher/Natalie Portman and “Friends With Benefits” with Justin Timberlake/Mila Kunis. They both grossed 150 million dollars.
W7rxY TIL Indo-Mediterranean trade relations have existed since at least ~2000 BCE based on the presence of turmeric, banana, sesame, monkeys & peacocks all originating from India. According to some scholars, the connection between Israel and India was recorded during the reign of King Solomon.
Oj9R TIL an RTI(Right to Information) was filed by an Indian guy asking for India’s nuclear launch codes in India.
Y58B TIL Ireland’s reputation for scholarship in the early medieval period was so good that many scholars traveled from Britain and the European mainland to study in Irish schools
Xl4D TIL Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our life, nurtured by the notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”