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TIL There are organisms that live off of acidic mine drainage, including at a highly toxic Superfund site.

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gMwN9 TIL about Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal who murdered and ate a woman in 1981. He never served a proper sentence. In this article, Sagawa openly talks about his crime and urges to commit cannibalism again.
grwA7 TIL 70% of roughly 100 human deaths by grizzlies have been by mothers defending cubs, whereas, there is no record of a black bear mother killing anyone in defense of cubs. Mothers with cubs were involved in 3 of the 61 killings by black bears across America since 1900, but not in defense of her cubs
yQnVa TIL that The Nightmare Before Christmas has an official epilogue in rimes in the same style of the intro. It was published with the soundtrack cd and tells about Santa Claus going back after years to meet Jack again
E1aXd TIL that in the 19th Century, to purge the body of illness, people would use an Antimony Pill. When swallowed, a tiny amount of antimony will dissolve in the gut and would cause severe diarrhea and vomiting. The pill would then be passed, fished from the feces, washed and stored, ready for reuse.
R74Rw TIL worth £2 million, Lampy is the oldest garden gnome in existence, made in 1847. There had been 21 of them, but the original owner's daughter hated them and tried to remove them all. She missed this one.