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TIL: Lake Poopo completely dried up after the water level in Lake Titicaca could no longer support feeding into Poopo

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d8jr TIL after Kurt Cobain’s death, his hometown of Aberdeen, WA changed their town motto to “Come As You Are”.
Z8jMa TIL about the Rambutan, a hairy fruit, appropriately called the hair fruit in Malay and the messy hair fruit in Vietnamese.
NvkJ TIL in order for Coca-Cola to continue to exist, the company had to receive a special exception from the Drug Enforcement Agency to allow them to import coca leaves from Peru and Bolivia in huge amounts. In return, the cocaine in the leaves has to be extracted only to be used to create anesthesia.
loKRK TIL in 1887 a reporter named Nellie Bly talked her way into an insane asylum in New York and published her experience after ten days in the asylum. She claimed many of the patients seemed completely sane and the conditions were horrid. This led to NYC budgeting $1,000,000 to care of the insane.
Z8kBQ TIL the term "does not compute" originated as a catch phrase on the 1964 science fiction sitcom "My Living Doll"