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TIL “The Rats of Nihm” childhood movie was inspired by a real rat utopia experiment that ended in societal collapse.

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p698 TIL California’s economy is the size of the bottom 24 states combined. It would rank 8th in the world if it were it’s own country - ahead of Italy, Russia, India, and 186 others.
M7xn8 TIL: People with severe mental illness are no more likely to engage in violent behavior than the general population, but are more likely to be the victims of violence themselves
Y70w7 TIL the most destructive single air attack in human history was the napalm bombing of Tokyo on the night of 10 March 1945 that killed around 100,000 civilians in about 3 hours
R5New TIL the cast and crew on the film Titanic were drugged after eating clam chowder laced with PCP.
nedRP TIL that the tadpoles of frogs are mostly herbivores, but the tadpoles of salamanders and caecilians are carnivorous