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TIL that flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down

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6E5Jm TIL on April 19th, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann made his legendary bicycle ride home from his lab in Basel shortly after ingesting 250 micrograms of LSD, making this the first ever acid trip
61El TIL Romania had the unusual distinction of being at war with both the Allied and Axis powers simultaneously in August-September of 1944.
b9rna TIL about the Morris Worm, a computer program developed in 1988 meant to map out the internet. Instead, it basically crashed the entire web.
QNR7L TIL that the novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope was actually published several months before the release of the film, rather than the other way around
b9gPQ TIL that Cougars have a rich social structure and even share kill with other cougars, who eventually return the favor.