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TIL That hemlock plants are so poisoness that even the dead canes remain toxic for up to three years.

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WkPj9 TIL that the oldest penis graffiti/carvings was found on the limestone cliffs of a remote Greek island of Astypalaia. The graffiti also includes the phrase "Nikasitimos was here mounting Timiona."
NMDJ TIL that even John Katzman, president of test preppers Princeton Review, thinks the SAT is a scam and measures nothing
rNlPo TIL of the "Hippy Trail" when thousands of western hippies traveled the Silk Road by bus, car, van, motorcycle, or hitch hiking, mingling with locals in Afghanistan (and the entire Silk Road) in the 1960s-70s, officially ending in 1979 when the Afghanistan war started
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