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TIL phenylephrine is 'useless' as a decongestant

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0GW1 TIL that rabbits have 44 chromosomes, but hares have 48, making them very, very different animals
M7MnK TIL The first stenotype machine (the machine used by court reporters to type shorthand) was invented in 1830.
Wm08 TIL in 1961, Fidel Castro closed Cuban schools for a whole year and formed teachers into a “literacy army” with the goal to eradicate illiteracy. By the end of the year, 707,212 previously illiterate people had learned how to read.
Z1WR TIL James Cameron made the movie Titanic to get a dive to the shipwreck funded by the movie studio; not because he particularly wanted to make the movie.
OoYwX TIL road damage mostly results from trucks and buses. The damage a vehicle causes is proportional to the axle load raised to the fourth power, so doubling the weight an axle carries actually causes 16 times as much damage.