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TIL - If you bite it and die, it is poisonous; if it bites you and you die, it is venomous.

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5Ln9 TIL that a man was given a 13 year sentence for armed robbery in the year 2000, but the state of Missouri forgot to put him in prison. They only noticed in 2013, 13 years later, when it came time for his ‘release’.
E6Zo TIL there is a ~11,000 sq ft underground vault on a Norwegian Island that “aims at safeguarding the world’s most important plant genetic resources for food and agriculture with a maximum level of security” free of charge.
EL5P TIL that in the midst of a three-year killing spree, over which he is believed to have murdered up to 130 people, serial killer Rodney Alcala was featured a contestant on The Dating Game, and was picked by the bachelorette. She never followed up on the date because she found him “creepy”.
OGDK1 TIL Vladimir Lenin ruled the shortest time in the Soviet Union, only 1 year and 22 days.
x6Jl7 TIL there is a man buried on the moon. Eugene Shoemaker, a pioneer of planetary science and a founder of astrogeology became the first and only person to be buried on the moon when his ashes arrived there with the Lunar Prospector spacecraft on July 31, 1999.