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TIL Pure LSD (Acid) salts are triboluminesent, emitting small flashes of light when shaken in the dark.

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GAWy4 TIL after a Night trick or treating, 8 year old child was given one last sweet by his own Father. later the kid dies because the candy was poisonous and the father tried to claim his son's life insurance.
9Y7BD TIL that in 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Space Telescope on the emptiest part of the sky they could find and left it for 10 days, letting light accumulate until incredibly faint objects could be detected. It resulted in an image of about 3000 galaxies. This is the Hubble Deep Field.
BGKD TIL astronomers polished a 25-meter mirror for the Great Magellan Telescope so smooth that the largest bump is .0003 times the width of a human hair
epWQb TIL when you sing "Home, home on the range. Where the deer and the antelope play," there are no antelope in the USA.
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