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TIL scientists have been giving MDMA to Octopuses to see what effect it has on their sociability. "At first they used too high a dose, and the animals “freaked out and did all these color changes,”

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1ador TIL that Repairs on Benjamin Franklin’s old London house turned up 1200 pieces of bone from at least 15 people.
yQJVv TIL the Spanish word for junk mail is “la propaganda.”
0wdXR TIL same-sex marriage is not legal in any Asian country, and is only legal in one African country (South Africa)
vAO8 TIL Japanese Tentacle erotica dates back to at least 1814 with Hokusai’s woodcut “The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife.”
R74Jl TIL in the late 19th century, the Sears catalog used to offer a heroin kit, two vials of heroin included, for only $1.50 - slightly less than 50 2019 dollars.