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TIL Queen Elizabeth used cannabis to help with her menstrual cramps

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PYKPe TIL A backwards message was inserted into the B-52’s album “Bouncing Off the Satellites.” In the last 30 seconds of the track "Detour Thru Your Mind," Fred Schneider says, "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards. Watch out, you might ruin your needle."
JvO4 TIL Most lizards can’t breath and run at the same time, due to sideways flexing of the body expanding one lung and compresses the other, shunting stale air from lung to lung instead of expelling it completely to make room for fresh air.
OGGK6 TIL that Lobsters live intricate social lives when lobsters communicate , they squirt each other in the face with urine .
pYyMQ TIL that Haff Disease is unexplained rhabdomyolysis (muscle breakdown) within 24 hours of eating fish. The cause is thought to be an unidentified poison.
e0Do4 TIL that immediately after Winston Churchill's 'We shall fight them on the beaches' speech during WWII, he told a colleague, "And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!"