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TIL John Lennon was so near-sighted he could not see the crowds when performing on stage. He only knew they were there by their screams. The rest of the Beatles would trick him into walking through wrong doors, usually leading him into closets.

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7r9pM TIL an Irish person named Michael malloy survived multiple murder attempts by his 5 friends. They spiked his drink in five different ways, tried food poisoning, dumped his drunk body in snow overnight, tried killing him by running a car over him.
9wydB TIL The nuclear spin of xenon isotopes affects their anesthetic potency, showing potential effects of quantum mechanisms between the xenon isotopes, the brain, and consciousness. Xenon isotopes with nuclear spin are less potent as an anaesthetic than those without.
QJApp TIL a Chinese woman was bitten by a Pit viper 3 months after stuffing the snake into a bottle of wine, in order to make a traditional Chinese medicine called Snake Wine. She opened the bottle to drink some after suffering from joint pain, the snake escaped, biting her in the process.
pYe6A TIL: Banyan merchant is an expression used widely in the Indian Ocean trade to refer to Indian merchants who are clearly distinguished from others, by their clothing, their religious and cultural dietary choices, and the manner in which they conduct trade
JYLPQ TIL although Benjamin Franklin never tried to get the turkey as the national bird, he did think eagles were bad moral creatures and that turkeys were much more respectable.