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TIL they gave octopuses MDMA to study their social behavior

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Kwa4 TIL A killer who escaped the electric chair was electrocuted accidentally while sitting on a steel toilet.
0wVYA TIL about 'Gegenschein', a very faint glow in the night sky exactly opposite of the Sun, caused by the backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust.
R7ENw TIL Alexander Alekhine from Russia has been the only World Chess Champion to die while holding the title, and the circumstances of his death have raised suspicions that he was murdered
W6rL TIL that Richard Mansfield, one of the first actors to play Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was so good at acting a psychopath that he became a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, was reported to the police and had his career decline afterwards from suspicion.
b6J8Z TIL that the word "BALKAN" comes from the Turkish words "Honey" and "Blood." The Ottomans named the area the "Land of Honey and Blood"