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TIL that almost 1/3 of all the morphine in the world is derived in a city in Turkey called "Afyon" which literally means Opium.

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b6oW4 TIL that In 1518, the dancing plague in the Holy Roman city of Strasbourg saw some 400 people dance uncontrollably for weeks on end — leaving as many as 100 of them dead.
rNmLe TIL the interior of the U.S. Capitol dome is dominated by a painting of George Washington becoming a God.
5WoD TIL an FBI informant investigating corruption in LA jail was transferred to different jails, kept in isolation, held under various aliases, and watched around the clock to prevent FBI handlers from finding him. The corruption included brutality and staging “gladiator style fights” between inmates.
R58D6 TIL Columbine shooter Eric Harris was Rejected by the Marines 5 days before the Attack.
epAE TIL in 1910, Norman Angell (a future Nobel Price Peace Winner) published a book that propagated the view that Europe had become so economically interlaced that future war was impossible.