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TIL that about 90% of the world’s LSD supply vanished overnight when the chemist who was making virtually all of the world’s LSD, got caught. he was making it In a nuclear missile silo.

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dw17 TIL Testimony of war crimes committed by Iraq against Kuwait was an astroturf campaign to sell Operation Desert Storm to the American people, people involved included senators and congressmen who knowingly lied.
rROvM TIL that your heart rate slows when your face touches water; this is called the mammalian diving reflex.
JYr0V TIL that Christopher Collins, the voice of Starscream in the original series, also voiced Cobra Commander in the 1983 G.I. Joe cartoon. Making him the voice of two classic bad guys for an entire generation. He later went on to have a successful stand-up comedy career.
Y71AA TIL A group of raccoons is called a Gaze.
4XyGw TIL: A Giant Tortoise, the last confirmed sighting of which, was in 1906, was discovered in 2019. The female Tortoise was discovered on Fernandia, an active shield volcano on the Galapagos Islands.