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TIL Lemurs Get High on Toxic Millipedes by biting them. They also rub them all over their body as the millipede's secretions ward off insects.

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gMWkA TIL that 12,000 bears are farmed for their bile in Asia which is used in traditional Chinese medicine and generates $2bn per year. Farming always involves surgery on the bears to insert a catheter or to cut a hole through the abdomen by which the bile leaks. Bear bile has no medicinal effect.
aRm0 TIL Steve Jobs wanted to hide a man wearing a fedora in the first Mac. Dubbed “Mr. Macintosh,” the character would appear after opening the menu bar several thousand times then quickly disappear, leaving users to question their sanity. The idea was scrapped due to the Mac’s paltry 128KB of RAM.
kVlm TIL Irish slaves used to be shipped to America where they would be forced to breed with black slaves in order to produce “mulatto” slaves that were worth more than the cheap white Irish slaves.
loPDK TIL 1 day old baby Reindeer are faster than an Olympic sprinter
JY4m8 TIL that Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" was nominated for two Razzie Awards for Worst Actress and Worst Director