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TIL Timothée Chalamet & Luca Guadagnino both independently experimented with a peach to test the authenticity of a pitted peach being used in the narrative as a masturbation tool.

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j6w1Q TIL that a 1904 Swiss law allows local governments to kill people’s dogs if they don’t pay a “dog tax”
R5Pwa TIL that Stephen King was so obsessed with Lou Bega’s Mambo No. 5 that his wife threatened to divorce him over it.
Ox6Y TIL a graduate chemistry student tried to get high by synthesizing MPPP but accidentally made MPTP instead, which gave him permanent symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease.
MegJ8 TIL Zeal Akaraiwai, a man from Nigeria pays medical bills for fellow Nigerians that cannot afford to do it. He does this every week and had saved countless lives so far. As he said: “Be the angel you hope to meet”.
NXwOM TIL that January 1st came to be celebrated as the new year in 153 BCE, when it became the inauguration date of new Roman consuls. The Julian and Gregorian calendars carried this over from the earlier Roman consular dating system.