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TIL someone got so fed up with being on the mailing list of a scientific journal, they wrote a study titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List”. The paper was accepted.

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vQGB TIL Opossum’s are the only marsupial found in North America. From eating snakes they posses a resistant to rattlesnake, cottonmouth and pit viper venom.
j66np TIL: A Dolphin named Peter, fell in love with an adult Female Human and committed suicide after the two were separated…
KYk0B TIL the restaurant betrayal scene in the Matrix used a spit bucket for actor Joe Pantoliano, who said rare beef makes him gag. In wide shots they used shiitake mushrooms rigged to look like steak for the actor to eat.
WkJrN TIL: J. Edgar Hoover opposed Japanese Internment Camps. Saying the decision was “based on public and political pressure, not factual data”.
9wW0G TIL On March 16, 1968 Hugh Thompson, a US Army helicopter pilot, played a pivotal role in ending the My Lia Massacre in a southern Vietnam village. Thompson threatened to open fire on American troops if they continued to harm innocent civilians. His extraordinary actions prevented further tragedy.