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TIL: Aquaman’s archnemesis is autistic

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8aRML TIL of Nellie Bly, a 19th century female journalist who went around the world in 72 days, pretended to be insane in order to expose the deplorable conditions in mental asylums, patented two designs for steel cans and ran a million-dollar iron manufacturing business, all before the age of 40.
pJ08 TIL there are turntables that play records using a laser instead of a needle, and are so accurate that they play the dirt and dust collected in the record grooves
EgKMw TIL that persistent, long term cannabis use can lead to CHS, one of the symptoms of which is "scromiting."
ZpZaD TIL In 1947 a man named Art Lacey bet his friend $5 he couldn’t buy a retired B-17 and turn it into a gas station. After a wild journey including a plane crash, alcohol smuggling, permit skirting, and a cross country trip, he won that bet and it stayed in place for more than six decades
oBlj8 TIL all toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads