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TIL that the portuguese man o war, isn’t one Jellyfish, it’s four animals living symbiotically.

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yQjdp TIL in 1665 during the Great Plague of London, people used to fart in jars, and then inhaled those farts when the plague came, to ward off disease, according to miasma theory.
KNjQ TIL that Jim Henson once tried to do LSD in his muppet workshop; he felt no effects, so he called it a day and then drove home
XELbE TIL Plato's dialogue "Timaeus" presents the shapes of the four elements. Earth would be a cube, air an octahedron, of water an icosahedron, and of fire a tetrahedron. The dodecahedron represents the shape of the universe
WKj9 TIL in an effort to one-up the Soviets during the late 1950s, the United States planned to hit the moon with a nuclear warhead-tipped ICBM. In the Air Force’s infinite wisdom, however, the plan was scrapped because they felt the public would respond unfavorably to nuking the moon.
GApN TIL that there is DNA evidence proving that Polynesians visited the Americas (Chile) in the 1300s, well before Columbus ever reached the New World; there are also stories of Polynesians seeing Antarctica around the year 650, “a place of bitter cold where rock-like structures rose from a solid sea”