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TIL Human Saliva contains a painkiller 6 times more potent then morphine

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vwE8 TIL a man once drunkenly stole a plane and landed it in the middle of Manhattan in front of the bar he had been drinking at. Two years later he did it again because someone doubted he had done it the first time.
AEEo TIL that Albert Brooks’ birth name is Albert Einstein.
5VyXD TIL there haven’t been any wild flamingos in Florida for >100 years
X01v6 TIL A galactic "second" is eight earth years. The "big year"—a complete rotation of the Milky Way—takes 250 million of our local years to complete, making a comparable "day" nearly 700 thousand years, an "hour" 25,500 years, and a "minute" 475 years. A galactic "nanosecond" is 1/4 of an earth second
5YAkR TIL that the Sony PS2 is the #1 selling gaming console in history. (155m units)