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9yM7 TIL Mithridates VI was so paranoid of being poisoned that he took small doses throughout his life to build up an immunity. When he was finally captured by the Romans, he tried to kill himself with poison but failed because he was immune.
aAGL TIL that in the show Blues Clues, Steve is replaced by Joe because Steve moves to college on a hopscotch scholarship
9wDbB TIL of paper towns and trap streets, a technique where mapmakers and publishers of encyclopedias and dictionaries hide fake data within real information in order to determine if someone has plagiarized their work
EgO6o TIL TVs were banned in Bhutan until June of 1999
v1yLB TIL that some frog species are freeze-tolerant: they will freeze in the winter to the point that their heart stops, and thaw and repair once temperatures go up.