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TIL about Brian, the mentally ill Bonobo who was prescribed Paxil to help with his anxiety but taken off of it a few years later after he started sharing it amongst the other apes

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ZeZp TIL: In 2013, forty year old Heath Campbell strolled into a New Jersey courthouse wearing full Nazi regalia and asked for visitation rights to his toddler claiming “Prisoners get to see their children, murderers get to see their children. What’s so horrible about being a Nazi?”.
KJnQ TIL An electron differs from a perfect sphere by less than 0.000000000000000000000000001 of a centimeter – so that “if the electron were magnified to the size of the solar system, it would still appear spherical within the width of a human hair.”
J1Avj TIL that Saturn is the only planet in our solar system with an average density that is less than water. So, it could float in a bathtub if such a colossal thing existed.
ne977 TIL The supreme court concluded that US citizens have the right to refuse presidential pardons. George Wilson fought a presidential pardon and won a hanging.
8ewg8 TIL that in the 1980s, Tom Fogerty, rhythm guitarist for Creedence Clearwater Revival, underwent back surgery, and was given a blood transfusion that was not screened for HIV causing him to become infected with the virus. He later contracted AIDS and died from tuberculosis.