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

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VMBB0 TIL that a strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to eradicate them. Scientists found that the mutant cockroaches react to glucose as distastefully bitter–an effective way for natural selection to quickly produce roaches that won't accept poisoned sweet baits
yQ5gw TIL that a researcher once proposed to his girlfriend in the acknowledgement section of a scientific paper that he published.
l7LMK TIL about the 1957 Madison Square Garden wrestling riot where fans erupted into chaos, causing injuries, arrests, and nearly leading to wrestling being banned in New York.
4Xxxw TIL Popeye the Sailor Man was loosely based on a man named Rocky Feigel from Chester Illinois.
Z81OB TIL about Operation Sandblast, the first submerged circumnavigation of the world in 1960, which took 60 days and 21 hours to complete. They generally followed the same path used by Ferdinand Magellan in the first circumnavigation of the world in 1519.