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TIL King Cobra is called as “King” becuase it can eat other species of snakes, and their poison doesn’t affect it.

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9YmRB TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
0LWN TIL that the first Sherlock Holmes book “A Study in Scarlet” was the first work of fiction to mention a magnifying glass being used as an investigative tool and is the reason we still connect this item with detectives today
VPED TIL Nazis performed human experiments on twins, including but not limited to, sewing them together to make conjoined twins.
9YLap TIL that in 1923, a jockey suffered a fatal heart attack but his horse finished and won the race, making him the first and only jockey to win a race after death.
pY9n4 TIL The first speeding ticket was issued in the UK. In 1896 a person was caught driving 8 miles per hour in a zone where the maximum limit was 2mph.