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TIL: The ASPCA (sad dog commercials) CEO makes almost $600k/year and the charity has a financial rating of 76.

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4OEo TIL that scientists were monitoring whale stress levels by analyzing their poop and found that their stress plummeted immediately following the 9/11 attacks. Turns out this was due to all ship traffic being halted which quieted the oceans of low frequency noise which whales use to communicate
e0y86 TIL Kevin Carter, the photographer that received a Pulitzer Prize for the photograph he took of a starving boy and vulture in South Sudan ended up taking his own life in 1994 with this suicide note “haunted by vivid memories and killings & corpses...starving children...of trigger happy madmen”
pYGQO TIL Salvia Divinorum, a plant in the Mint family, produces the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen by mass. The most intense peak is reached in roughly a minute & lasts for 1–5 minutes. Users usually return to a sense of the everyday & familiar, then to baseline, after about 15-20 minutes.
kJlMe TIL that Frank Iero from My Chemical Romance was visited by the Secret Service after he released a song called "I Am Going to Kill the President of the United States of America". He was threatened with 5 years in prison if he ever played the song live again.
8ayOL TIL, the eye drops can travel down your throat