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TIL that a group of researchers hotboxed lobsters to see if they would get high. They discovered “duration-related THC levels in all tissues examined.” Along with a lowered locomotor activity.

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MMNa TIL mathematician Max Little invented a brilliant way to diagnose Parkinson’s Disease by simply listening to someone’s voice on the phone. Success rate: an amazing 99%!
Eg5mw TIL - The German language expanded because people began speaking differently due to a consonant shift, a phonological development that makes people pronounce consonants differently.
R5kMj TIL about space junk collectors
BNvy TIL in 1913, 4 year old Bobby Dunbar went missing, and police found him living as Bruce Anderson 8 months later. After jailing the kidnapper, he was returned to the Dunbar family. In 2004, DNA tests proved that he was, in fact, Bruce Anderson.
lK0a TIL there is a real time model that shows the Earth’s wind patterns