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TIL that “runners’ high” is chemically equivalent to smoking pot.

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YpenB TIL that Leonard Nimoy was a taxi driver before he got his start on Star Trek, and once gave JFK a cab ride during the 1956 presidential race when Kennedy was a potential Vice president candidate
65GJ TIL Goodwill is using a loophole to pay disabled workers as little as 22 cents an hour
oRVa7 TIL that a Physics paper called “Two-, Three-, and Four-Atom Exchange Effects in bcc3 He” was co-authored by F.D.C. Willard - a Siamese cat named Chester.
dv7K TIL that birds are by far the most abused type of animal in the United States. All birds — egg-laying hens, meat chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese and others — are excluded from all federal animal protection laws.
EgbZp TIL: In 1876, the Mississippi River changed course by breaking away a peninsula that The Union army failed to do 13 years prior.