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TIL puff adder snake bites is estimated to cause over 40,000 deaths annually in Africa

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ZpyWo TIL that some medieval monks interpreted the scriptural Nemo Deum vidit (“No one hath seen God”), along with many other references to No-one in the Bible, to mean that Nemo was a certain person. Everything impossible, inadmissible, inaccessible is, on the contrary, permitted for Nemo.
4kodR TIL that the movie "Never Been Kissed" is based on a true story where a 26-year old reporter went undercover in a San Francisco high school as a student.
OGbG6 TIL In Chinese mythology weretigers also known as tiger demons exist but unlike werewolves (who are humans who can shapeshift into a wolf) they are actually tigers who shapeshift into humans and if you are killed by one of them you aren't able to reincarnate and they will enslave your spirit
4XJOJ TIL sugar can twist light, and has been used in calibrating instruments that detect the rotation of light.
0OAj TIL that Queens of the Stone Age were thrown out mid performance at a rehab clinic after opening with their song ‘Feel Good Hit Of The Summer’