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TIL actor Dan Richter, the lead man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey", had the status of a “legal” drug addict in England, and injected a doctor-prescribed combination of heroin and cocaine up to 7 times daily. When he needed additional stimulation, he always had state-supplied crystal meth on hand

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e0kDE TIL the highest artificial temperature recorded was when scientists at Large Hadron Collider announced that they had temperatures of over 5 trillion K. The team smashed together lead ions at 99% light speed to create quark gluon plasma–a state of matter that filled the universe after the Big Bang.
Y7Byv TIL Whale milk has the consistency of toothpaste.
5YWZP TIL 500 members of French 17th of infantery regiment mutinied during the 1907 revolt of the Languedoc winegrowers, and joined the demonstrators. As a retaliation: during WW1 the regiment was harshly sent to multiple death traps with no support, before being dissolved in 1921.
eXYn TIL The 52-Hertz whale a.k.a. “The World’s Loneliest Whale” has a call that is much higher pitched than that of other whale species. It appears to be the only individual whale emitting a call at this frequency. It has been detected regularly in many locations since the 1980’s.
awBmM TIL about Jadav Payeng, "The Forest Man of India," who has planted tens of thousands of trees over the course of nearly 40 years. He has made bloom a once desiccated island that lies in the Brahamputra river, which runs through his home state of Assam.