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TIL Dolphins seem to use toxic pufferfish to get high.
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TIL about Kryptos. A sculpture of 4 encrypted messages by artist Jim Sanborn at the CIA Langley grounds. The first 3 parts have been solved but the 4th remains a mystery despite continued worldwide efforts to decode it.
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TIL dick farts are a real thing called pneumaturia after having a catheder removed.
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TIL for several hundred years the Catholic Church cited a document (the Donation of Constantine) claiming Emperor Constantine bestowed vast territory and spiritual and temporal power on the Pope. It was clearly demonstrated to be a forgery in the 1400s
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TIL: Cartoonist, Mike Diana, whose comics often dealt with sexuality, violence and religion, was the first person in the United States to receive a criminal conviction for "Artistic Obscenity". The court also ruled that Diana was to submit to warrant-less searches, by police and the Salvation Army.
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TIL that the Eiffel Tower grows in summer. When it gets hot, the iron expands due to the heat and shrinks again in the winter. It grows by 6 inches each summer.