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TIL there is a species that is half animal–half plant
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W0l8
TIL a US Government agency has cataloged and assigned a value to “virtually every item that exists.”
LQNG9
TIL that honey never spoils, and archaeologists have found perfectly preserved honey in ancient Egyptian tombs.
M9o0
TIL in 2015, a top Russian Military Strategist recommended dropping a Megaton-Class Nuclear Bomb on Yellowstone National Park, catalyzing a Supervolcano Eruption that could kill more than 50% of the U.S. population in the first 24 hours. He recommends such action if “tensions should ever boil over”.
Xb7k
TIL: One of the oldest and most effective asthma meds, Albuterol, was $15 per inhaler in 2000, now after it was re-patented it is $100.
ElYV
TIL that while scouting locations for Full Metal Jacket, Stanley Kubrik, looking at out the window, drove into a ditch and rolled the car, he then climbed on top and continued talking about the location he just found without ever mentioning the accident he just had