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TIL that a snake measuring 50 feet in length once roamed the earth, crushing its prey with a constricting force equivalent to lying under the weight of one and a half Brooklyn Bridges

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AjPg TIL That the word Oxymoron is a oxymoron in its self, Oxy meaning sharp and Moron meaning dull.
6EmAW TIL about the Pochonbo Electronic Ensamble, a North Korean orchestra that performs folk and revolutionary (DPRK propaganda) music
G7Yj TIL that two pharmaceutical companies own a patent claiming that cannabis helps kill cancer cells by promoting the re-emergence of apoptosis so that some tumours will heed the signals, stop dividing, and die.
dDMMd TIL of the Gansu ultramarathon disaster, a 62-mile race in which 21 runners lost their lives
eB86 TIL-25 hospitals in North America & Europe have visual messages strategically placed near the ceilings in operating rooms. These messages are only visible when read from above, and are part of an on-going study to test the validity people claiming to have ‘out of body’ experiences.