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TIL that Karl Marx described Abraham Lincoln as being “a man neither to be browbeaten by adversity, nor intoxicated by success.”

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XEkYR TIL that if you were to jump off the tallest cliff in the Solar System, Verona Rupes on Uranus’s moon Miranda, you would fall for 12 minutes before hitting the ground a good 20 kilometers below.
QN8bd TIL: Kobe Bryant is mostly responsible for the fall of high top basketball sneakers. Raised in Italy, Kobe noticed that soccer players play in a fairly similar way to basketball player. Kobe told Nike point-blank, 'I want the lowest, lightest-weight basketball shoe ever’.
yXbp TIL that poison dart frogs raised in captivity are completely nontoxic. This is because they do not manufacture their own toxins. Instead, they simply concentrate toxins found in the insects they eat. When fed nontoxic insects, they cannot obtain the toxins, rendering them completely harmless.
oEWr TIL the last Attorney General to break with POTUS was Elliot Richardson, who resigned after Nixon ordered him to fire the Special Prosecutor of the Watergate scandal
0GL5 TIL there’s a drug named Orexin-A which effectively eliminates sleep deprivation and has no negative side-effects. It also ups your arousal.