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TIL: The "Leatherman" was a person dressed in a leather suit who would repeat a 365 mile route for over 30 years. He would stop at towns for supplies and lived in various "Leatherman caves". When archeologists dug up his grave in 2011, they found no remains, only coffin nails.

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544Q TIL while filming the movie disaster Ishtar, the animal trainer needed to find a blue-eyed camel. He found the perfect one at the first dealer but decided to shop around. Realizing how rare blue-eyed camels are, he returned to the first trader, who had since eaten the camel.
Y80B TIL Eli Lilly, the company behind the SSRI antidepressant Prozac, hid its clinical trials from the FDA that showed patients who took Prozac were 12 times more likely to commit suicide compared to older antidepressants.
5QpP TIL That first time possession of less than 25g of marijuana is neither a misdemeanor, nor punishable by any jail time in New York state. The only punishment is a $100 fine.
x6VG5 TIL, a woman mistakenly snorted a line of LSD containing 550 times the usual recreational dose, mistaking it for cocaine. The woman had been suffering from chronic foot pain for 20 years, but found that the massive dose of LSD allowed her to reduce and eventually stop morphine consumption.
N7ng1 TIL from my daughter that gas pump payments are not just automatic transactions enabled by the user like an ATM machine, but an event where the clerk inside the store is alerted and must actually confirm your card is authorized before allowing you to pump your gas.