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TIL there exists a drug, Scopolamine, that is used by criminals to turn victims into mindless zombies, doing whatever they are told to

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wo8RY TIL A ‘lost world’ of early microbes thrived one billion years ago which give clues to a lost world of primitive microbes that once may have populated the world’s oceans and may have eventually given rise to modern plants and animals.
v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.
VMBPD TIL a vigilante in Bristol, England has been sneaking out at night for 10 years to fix grammar and punctuation errors on signs such as “Herberts the Bakery,” using stickers and an eight-foot-long tool he calls the “apostrophizer.”
p8J8 TIL that 9-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.
ZpY1o TIL of Lon Horiuchi - the FBI officer who fatally shot Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge & was also accused of firing into the burning building during the siege of Waco