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TIL in 2014, a 23 year old female accidentally killed herself by absorbing methamphetamine via her vagina - the autopsy found a meth-filled plastic bag inside of her, and the concentration in her blood was 2.4 times the greatest concentration ever found in a human

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VMLGB TIL every Apple product in every promotional photo is set to 9:41 a.m. This is because when Jobs introduced the original iPhone at MacWorld 2007, he wanted the first image of the phone to show the actual time on the audience's watches. He did a practice run in 41 minutes, so the time was set to 9:41
MgWB TIL that if you earn more than $21,000 dollars per year, you are among the top 4% richest people in the world
Brmde TIL I learned that the idea of "pure blood" stems from the practive of the eucharist, which wasn't common until the 12th century.
awr4Z TIL samurai would poop with one leg completely out of their pant leg in case they needed to fight during a visit to the bathroom.
ABWg TIL that Autrian ethologist Karl von Frisch was nominated for the Noble Prize in 1927 for his work on deciphering the Waggle dance of honey bees. Using the Waggle dance, a bee communicates to other worker bees the direction and distance of the most productive flowers using the angle of the sun.