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TIL Some animals in Yosemite still carry the Black Plague

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WJkX TIL - Tasmania has approved a motion to permanently ban the sale of cigarettes to anyone born after the year 2000
QY6X TIL: The shortest Oscar Speech ever was given by Patty Duke in 1962, who at age 16, the youngest person to accept an Oscar in a competitive category, said “Thank You”, and walked off the stage.
N7PEE TIL that the first known recording of a human voice was made in 1860, but was only intended to show a sound wave visually, not to be played back. In 2008, it was optically scanned and converted to a sound file, revealing it to be a man singing "Au clair de la lune".
Va6k TIL Christophen Langan (IQ 190-210) was regularly beaten as a child for being smarter than his stepfather (IQ unknown). At age 12 he began weight training and at 14 threw his stepfather out of the house. Langan worked mostly labor-intensive jobs and for over 20 years, as a bouncer on Long Island.
VQbm TIL that about 90% of the world’s LSD supply vanished overnight when the chemist who was making virtually all of the world’s LSD, got caught. he was making it In a nuclear missile silo.