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TIL there is a hallucinogen originating from Africa called Ibogaine that is highly successful in treating heroin addiction by minimising the effects of withdrawal but it is illegal in most of the western world.

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Q8eM TIL In X-men, camera tricks are used to make Hugh Jackman appear shorter because at 6'2 he is almost a foot taller than Wolverine is said to be in the comics… 5'3.
4wE6 TIL: In the 1980s, when the Navy found out about the slang term “Friend of Dorothy”, which gay men used for secretly identifying each other, they launched an enormous witch hunt, as they thought there was actually a woman named Dorothy who ran a massive underground homosexual military personnel
ro60 TIL that US president Cleveland developed a close relationship with his friend’s baby daughter. When his friend died, a court appointed him to administer the estate, making him closer to the then 11 y.o. girl. When she graduated university at 21, Cleveland (49 y.o.) married her while President.
JY9k1 TIL Sherpa people have a small number of names and children are often called by days of the week. They also give names according to certain virtues. By mistake of the enumerators in Nepal, their nationality was added as a surname. Otherwise, they have no last name.
rRe74 [TIL] Spain had a Fascist government well into the 1970's.