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TIL there is a flashlight that is designed to make the person looking into it vomit.

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0dbOp TIL there's a millipede named after Taylor Swift. The leader of the team who discovered it named it as such for two reasons: 1. Taylor Swift's music helped him through graduate school and, 2. the millipede is only found in Tennessee which is Taylor Swift's home state.
g0D4 TIL Pablo Escobar served time in his own self-built prison, complete with waterbeds, entertainment systems and a spectacular view of Medellín, all protected by his personally selected prison guards.
x97D TIL that the US government rejected several mobile hospitals, water treatment plants, 1 million barrels of oil, canned food, bottled water, 1500 doctors and 26.4 metric tons of medicine from Cuba and Venezuela for the people of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
697rw TIL that medicines are the third largest cause of death in the world after heart and cancer.
4k0b TIL parents in Denmark must have their baby’s name approved by a government agency