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TIL: Viagra was discovered by accident. The drug (Sildenafil) was on trial as a blood pressure lowering medication but patients started reporting these raging boners as a side effect. However, they didn’t wanna return the samples and wanted to keep taking them you know, for science.

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kG0E TIL of Ted Rodrigue, a homeless man who was given $100,000 as part of a documentary and social experiment. Within six months, he had less than $5,000.
lbrG TIL that George Harrison decided to write a song based on the first words he read upon opening a book. He then wrote “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” after seeing the words “gently weeps” in a random book pulled from a shelf at his parent’s house.
pL1e TIL Greenland is called Greenland because Erik The Red who was exiled from ICELAND wanted to give it a more interesting name than ICELAND in order to attract settlers.
kGg5 TIL in the traditional aboriginal Canadian version of lacrosse, teams consisted of 100 to 1,000 men and fields were 500m to 3km long. Games could last up to 3 days straight.
AY6g TIL Earth is struck by approximately 1 septillion asteroids daily. (That’s 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 asteroids.)