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TIL 100 million years ago, dinosaurs would get high by eating psychedelic fungi.

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0w6W5 TIL Ted Bundy returned to a crime scene the morning after he had abducted and killed a student, Georgann Hawkins, in order to retrieve some evidence. There, in the midst of a major investigation, he took her earrings and one of her shoes from an adjoining parking lot, and left, unobserved.
wLl97 TIL about Roman Emperor Elagabalus, who loved to dress up as a woman, wore make up, depilated himself, requested to be refered to as a woman and acted as a courtesan. He also offered a large reward to anyone who could make him a vagina, which makes him the first recorded transgender person.
16g47 TIL that the US Navy once retrieved a Soviet supersonic missile that had smashed into millions of pieces, none larger than 6 inches, from the sea floor and managed to reverse-engineer it.
9wAJX TIL that similar to West Virginia previously being part of a larger Virginia, Maine was originally an exclave of Massachusetts before seceding to become its own state.
D1Gpe TIL that John Smith, the Jamestown colonist rescued by Pocahontas, spent his early life as a mercenary and pirate. He was eventually captured by the Ottomans and sold into slavery. He made his way back to England and became a colonist after escaping into Russia.