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TIL- Pistachios are spontaneously combustible.

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VMAPp TIL of the “replication crisis”, the fact that a surprisingly large percent of scientific findings cannot be replicated in subsequent studies.
ymy8 TIL Ecstasy is illegal in all countries in the world under a UN agreement. In Britain, the law has prohibited whole families of drugs even before they were invented and in the US, any new drug which has been designed to avoid the law is automatically prohibited
5VNDR TIL the Denver International Airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse. In 2006 it had killed its sculptor when he was in the middle of making it when a 9,000-pound section fell on him, but eventually was completed by his sons in 2013.
X0Qxr TIL that due to time dilation at relativistic speeds, a human in a spaceship accelerating at a constant 1g could travel the diameter of the milky way in 12 years from their perspective. To an observer on earth, they will have traveled for 113,000 years.
p81OQ TIL Anne Bancroft, who played older cougar seductress Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate", was only 36 during filming... barely 6 years older than star Dustin Hoffman.