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TIL scientists don't fully know how acetaminophen (aka Tylenol) actually works

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R5lgl TIL: Amelia Dyer, the "Ogress of Reading", likely killed 200-400 children while running a "baby farm" in the 1800s.
wLxYM Today I learned that the original eraser was stale bread and erasers are pink because of pumice: Guide to Erasers
5dkD TIL A partially paralyzed 75-year-old, was in his outhouse pit when the floor of it suddenly gave way. He fell through and was surrounded with excrement, urine, snakes, spiders, maggots and rats. He became stuck and it was over 3 days before the mailman found him.
Z8ZEQ TIL that the melody to the medieval English folk song "Nottamun Town" was considered lost to history until musicologists found isolated, illiterate, populations in Appalachia singing the song with a common melody and lyrics.
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