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TIL three Nigerians hijacked an airplane in the course of fighting for the country's democracy

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9wpgQ TIL of BZ, a chemical warfare nerve agent first synthesised in 1952. It has an anticholinergic effect with frightening hallucinations lasting for days, with effects still present after weeks. It is also very easy to overdose on
4XVpo TIL that when Bill Watterson turned down the opportunity to license and merchandise “Calvin and Hobbes,” it was estimated that he was turning down $300-400 million to maintain the integrity and purity of the comic.
LQ5bd TIL That Canada had its own version of Jim Crow laws that required many black children to attend segregated schools, separated blood transfusions by race, and allowed private business owners to refuse service to people from minority ethnic groups.
dZeZ TIL the see-no-evil, hear-no-evil, and speak-no-evil monkeys have names: Mizaru, Mikazaru, and Mazaru.
b9lpE TIL of the ‘Year 2038 Problem" which is that because of the way that Unix systems tracks time they cannot go past 19 January 2038 and will instead go backwards to 1901.