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TIL SSRIs, benzodiazepines, and antihistamines can make you heat intolerant, and more susceptible to heat stroke

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Br5ne TIL Alberta has no rats due to serious rat control policies, including a $5000 fine for having a rat. In 2004 someone released 38 rats in Calgary but by the time the rat control officers arrived the local residents had already formed an armed posse and hunted them down with brooms, 2x4s, and shovels
xVPmb TIL Socrates claimed all his wisdom came from a voice in his head that told him what not to do but never what to do. The reason he was arrested wasn't just that he did not believe in Athen's gods, but that he presented this voice in his head as a new god.
JJM1 TIL: 2,000-year-old seeds were discovered in 1963 inside an ancient jar in Israel. They were planted in 2005 and a tree that had been extinct for over 1800 years sprouted.
69AGQ TIL that one of the original “triggered feminist” women was actually not triggered at all
g7B7 TIL in the 1920’s Soviet biologist Ilia Ivanov carried out a series of experiments to create human - ape hybrids. 5 Human women had volunteered to be inseminated with the sperm of Tarzan, a 26-year-old male orang-utan and to carry his babies.