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TIL the purpose of a bong is to immediately cool the smoke by passing it through water, resulting in a smoother toke.The water also filters out any ash that might otherwise blow into your mouth or airway.There’s also a certain amount of tar filtration that goes on. This is why the water turns brown

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QN78p TIL that in middle ages suicidal people feared eternal damnation that direct suicide entailed, so they would commit a capital crime over innocent child and then turn themselves in to authorities and demand capital punishment
LQDm0 TIL That a Panopticon is a specifically designed jail that allows all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.
yEnw TIL A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death.
Oo9ke TIL scientists reverse engineered a natural memory by mapping the brain circuits underlying its formation, then “trained” another animal by stimulating brain cells in the pattern of the natural memory, which created an artificial memory that was indistinguishable from the natural one.