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TIL Joe Rogan was a self admitted Quake Addict

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OGoQ4 TIL that collecting orchids was so popular among the Victorians that it had a name - "orchidelirium." Orchids would often die after collection due to lack of knowledge about their cultivation. The craze reduced after international trade in wild orchids was banned in 1973.
JY4g8 TIL Seth Green was something of a mascot for the New Orleans Saints Football Team in the early 1990's.
awZKZ TIL of HMS Dreadnought, a ship built in 1906. It used such revolutionary technology that a whole new class of battleships named "dreadnoughts" was created. It was the fastest battleship in the world and had 32 guns. However, its only significant action was ramming and sinking a German submarine.
v1D6x TIL that there are ants called driver ants and are fucking horrifying (if any driver ants are reading please don’t hurt me)
8e6GL TIL that it's thought that one of the reasons cats purr is to heal their own internal injuries