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TIL that slime molds have shown an ability to learn and predict periodic unfavorable conditions in laboratory experiments

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W7YKo TIL Will Smith opened a k-6 grade school with deep ties to Scientology
oRvrr TIL that there is a vast illegal black market for blood in India. Selling blood and paying donors in India is illegal, but across the country, a vast "red market" proliferates. People are even kept prisoner in 'Blood Farms' and harvested for their blood.
oBwP7 TIL California Rocket Fuel is a slang term used by the psychiatric community that refers to a combined treatment with Mirtazapine and anti-depressant. In many cases, people given this combination notice a rapid improvement in their depressive symptoms.
nWJx7 TIL that in olympic wrestling, ref can give wrestler a penalty, if they decide that the wrestler is giving "less than total effort". "Both wrestlers are required to always give an all-out effort. Wrestlers showing less than total effort are considered "passive.""
p84ne TIL as a play on the copyright infringement common in the former Soviet Union, the packaging of Borat's DVD mimics a foreign bootleg DVD. The slipcover is in English but with an all-Cyrillic text and is made to look poorly photocopied. The disc is a parody on Memorex in the form of Demorez DVD-R.