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TIL that some autism patients excrete the same toxin in their urine that hallucinogenic toads have on their skin

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woPmP TIL of Zambia's space program involving being rolled down a hill & spun around trees in an oil drum as weightlessness training, then swinging on a rope then cut from it, emulating freefall. Taught to walk on their hands as this was "how you walk in space". A 16 yr old and a cat were Mars bound first
YpYjr TIL that some true statements in mathematics are true but cannot be proven. Ironically, if you prove that something cannot be proven, this proves that it must be true.
X07EX TIL On May 3, 2008 Estonian activists organized themselves as an ad hoc community to clean up the country's 10,000 tons of waste in a single day
XlRj TIL that human races do not exist taxonomically. A fixation index of 0.25 is required for a species to have various sub-species. Humans have a fixation index of 0.11, less than half of the required criteria of genetic diversity needed for the existence of sub-species or races.
rNyZ4 TIL (Actually at least yesterday) about obelisks, which form their own distinct phylogenetic group and whose genetic code doesn't share features with any other life form