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TIL that uranus smells like farts. That is maybe because of the hydrogen sulfide.

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VMabG TIL 'Bhang' is an edible cannabis product that has been used in India since 1000 BC
Z8o5p TIL that The Beatles made a petition in order to try to get Mick Jagger to portray Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
aw9ry TIL that the US once fed information to the USSR about an extremely deadly nerve gas called "GJ" that was nearly impossible to create. Although initially intended to waste Soviet resources on a wild goose chase, the project to replicate "GJ" ended up producing the now-infamous Novichok agents.
0dgQM TIL: In the US they call Heath Robinson contraptions "Rube Goldberg machines"
ZpJ1B TIL of La Nueva Jerusalén, a community of fundamentalist catholic doomsday cultists that run a tiny Mexican town with fear. They ban members from having sex with exceptions, modern tech and are in conflict with the towns nonbelievers. In 2012, they gained notoriety for destroying a public school.