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TIL that the word "addict" comes from the Latin root for "slave," because addicts are essentially slaves to their drugs.

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6E7M7 TIL Most of your bodies serotonin (90%) is produced within your digestive track not your brain.
4vx5 TIL that during WWII, The Japanese would hand out candy to starving Chinese children. The candy was laced with anthrax (a deadly poison).
5NGr Til that Ronald Reagan removed the regulation against product placement in children’s shows, helping create the 80’s cartoon boom with shows like Gi Joe, My little Pony, and Transformers.
jXVN TIL The three warning sings of future psychopathic behavior are 1) animal torture, 2) prolonged bed-wetting, and 3) juvenile pyromania. Criminologists call these symptoms “The Triad.”
ADbnB TIL that roadrunners can kill and eat rattlesnakes by capturing them and smashing the snakes head against a rock until it dies.