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TIL: The Blue Ringed Octopus is both venomous and poisonous thanks to the neurotoxin Tetrodotoxin

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7emb TIL the preferred ringtone for al-Qaeda influenced militants in Mali is laughing baby because it is not music and also is family-friendly
6ElaX TIL that one of the qualifications required to be elected President of Afghanistan is to not have been convicted of crimes against humanity
xVLL7 TIL that if you put a disc from a Sega Saturn into a normal CD player, a creepy message warning you to remove it would play. The CD players would play the game data as music and blow out speakers if the disc wasn't removed.
a8VZM TIL Prince George Washington was the last viceroy of Siam (present day Thailand). He eventually rebelled against, his cousin, the King. The rebellion failed, and in an ironic twist he sought refuge with the British. He spoke English fluently, had 28 children, and died in 1885.
yVXwX TIL Eminem produced Tupac's posthumous hit song "Ghetto Gospel". He worked with Tupac's prerecorded verse and sampled it with Elton Jonh's 1971 song called "Indian Sunset".