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TIL of Dock Ellis, a professional pitcher who threw a no-hitter while high on LSD

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OoYEL TIL Orcas, and other marine mammals, are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives.
0dPyA TIL that the kamikaze (Japanese: 神風, lit. 'divine wind') were two winds or storms that are said to have saved Japan from two Mongol fleets under Kublai Khan.
Me7aA TIL that when you lose 10 kg of fat, 8.4 kg is exhaled as CO2 and 1.6 kg is excreted as water. Most of the weight you lose exits your body through your lungs.
jooX TIL: Victor Licata Killed his family of 5 with an axe. His crime was blamed on Marijuana and was a driving force behind its prohibition and the inspiration for the movie Reefer Madness.
6Eb5Q Today I learned that a 2013 study reclassified Pygmy Right Whales as a member of the cetotheres, a previously thought extinct group of baleen whales that were prey to the megalodon, among others. This effectively brings the family ‘back from the dead.’