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TIL bunnies (foetuses and newborn) were declared fish by the Pope so monks, who had no access to fish in monasteries, had something to eat during Lent.

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9YLNr TIL Pete Maravich said “I don’t want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40.” and then played in the NBA for exactly 10 years and later died at age 40.
e0VZg Today I learned that one of the first human names ever recorded and is still used in modern times is Anita.
9wvjM TIL that in 2015 a 46 yr-old woman accidentally took 55 mg intranasally of pure LSD, equal to 550x the normal recreational dosage. She "blacked out" for the first 12 hours and felt "pleasantly high" for the second 12. A day later her chronic foot pain ceased, helping her to end her morphine habit.
B5Yy TIL Abraham Lincoln once told a speech so powerful and intriguing that all the reporters simply forgot to take notes and the contents of Lincoln’s speech remains unknown.
7rXvx TIL that Point Nemo, the point farthest from any land, is so remote that astronauts on the ISS are often the nearest humans