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TIL Heroin was created to be a less addictive substitute to Morphine

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D8ar TIL in 2015, Disney banned selfie sticks from all its theme parks worldwide.
wj7E TIL that the United States bombed Vietnam with more than double the bomb tonnage dropped by every single country in all of WW2.
e0n9E TIL that IKEA screws get stripped so fast because the screw head is not Phillips, and is actually superior with the right tools
N7LWb TIL that there is no established reason why men have beards. Possible explanations include beards increasing attractiveness to women (inter-sexual selection) or increasing dominance amongst other males (intra-sexual selection) by signalling sexual maturity and increasing perceived jaw size.
yQXVX TIL that in medieval england they used notched wooden sticks as receipt for taxes. This was in use until the XIX century when they decided to destroy the "records"... and it provoked the 1834 fire that consumed the Palace of Westminster.