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TIL British troops used over 72 million amphetamine tablets during WWII

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yVAwe TIL Coney Island was at one point and island and they artificially connected it to Brooklyn in the 1920s-30s
j6JQQ TIL Winston Churchill said, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons."
9wDvX TIL when Guinness World Records stopped monitoring the record for the longest time to stay awake in 1997, the record holder at the time was Robert McDonald who went 453 hours 40 minutes (18 days 21 hours 40 minutes) without sleeping in 1986.
1aPj4 TIL that "guitar wizard" Jimi Hendrix thought Terry Kath of the band Chicago was a better guitarist than he was after seeing them perform at Whisky A Go Go in 1968.
oByrA TIL Gallium completely destroys Aluminium cans