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TIL Bill Murray once got lost in the jungles of Bali and put on an impromptu show for the villagers

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jNkrj TIL about behavioral sink, an experiment with rats in a technically perfect and utopian situation; the behavior of rats in an overcrowding place lead to cannibalism, alienation and rabid violence, amongst other perversion, simply because there were more mice than social roles.
7rbgx TIL about Vulcan point, which is an island in a lake in a volcano, in a bigger lake inside another island inside the Pacific Ocean
BrbQd TIL that Θώθ is the word for Thoth in the old Greek language, Thoth is an Egyptian deity
OoXAY TIL In 1184 a disaster appeared in Erfurt, Germany which lead to 60 nobles drowning in liquid excrement.
oB4XE TIL about the Tucker State Prison Farm scandal, in which inmates were routinely beaten, tortured with needles under their fingernails, and had their genitals crushed with pliers and electrocuted. Up to 200 inmates may have been murdered and buried around the prison.