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TIL Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India

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7r5nx TIL The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (book) is 42 years old today
kOYyB TIL that a 26 year old male tried to commit suicide by swallowing 29 pills that he had recieved during a clinical trial. He was rushed to the hospital and was seemingly about to die from the side effects until he learned he had recieved placebo
MeDYV TIL: A new theory suggest Moses and the burning bush was not an event, but a vision created through the use of DMT created from the peganum harmala bush which was common in the region where evidence exist it was used in religious ceremony.
YgWP TIL that there are only 500 blockbuster video stores left in the USA
w947 TIL: In 2000, for the sole purpose of trolling the MPAA, a programmer created a mostly useless, legal program that shared a name with the recently released, illegal program for decrypting DVD video, DeCSS.