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TIL: The phrase “burning the candle at both ends” is in reference to Rushlights, cheaper versions of candles made out of grass dipped in animal fat. Burning both ends meant you were wasteful.

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jZLN TIL raccoon semen is a natural hallucinogen (containing DMT and mescaline)
VNpm TIL one of the earliest weapons of mass destruction was used during the Siege of Antwerp in 1585. A Dutch explosive fire ship containing 4 tons of explosive rammed a fortified Spanish bridge, killing 800 spaniards, causing a small tsunami, and vibrating windows 22 miles away
ObZ1 TIL of the Uru people, who live on 42 artificial floating islands made of reeds in Lake Titicaca.
R55M7 TIL after the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, a team of dredges had to work day and night to clear debris from the Columbia River. When they were finished, they’d collected enough material to fill a football field nearly seven miles high.
akbN TIL that Venezuela is one of the most violent places on earth with a person being murdered every 21 minutes.