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TIL the largest ape to ever live was doomed by its size.

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GALYN TIL that William C. Minor, an M.D. from Yale and schizophrenic, killed a man and then became a brilliant linguistic scholar and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, while in an asylum for the insane
loXk7 TIL Prehistoric rock art in the Saharan desert indicates that there were ancient hallucinogenic mushroom cults as far back as 9,000 years ago. The mushrooms were used in rituals of a mystico-religious nature, with drawings of Gods draped with the venerated mushrooms appearing repeatedly
LXxV TIL That Steve Irwin was offered a state funeral following his death, however his dad rejected the government’s offer citing that Steve would have wanted to have been remembered as “an ordinary bloke”.
0dkxv TIL: John Von Neumann learned an entire 7 year medical program in 2 weeks, can divide 8 digit numbers and converse in Greek at age 6, worked on the Manhattan Project, and published 150 papers in his life. Colleagues claim if he lived longer, the world would be drastically different.
a709 TIL that in 1952 while in an institution Charles Manson held a razor to another boy’s throat while he sodomized him before being released on parole in 1954.