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TIL: Late musician Kemistry is one of only two recorded deaths from a damaged/dislodged cat's eye (retroreflective safety device) ever.

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yQo7e Today I learned of the slow loris, the only poisonous primate in existence. It's toxin can kill a human, and may have evolved from trying to mimic a cobra.
Mn0B TIL the State of Louisiana sentences people to 13-20 years of Hard Labor for only nonviolent drug possession charges
W7ybB TIL Chile has such a long coast, in part, because they won all of Bolivia's coast and some of Peru's coast in a late-1800s war. This is still a sensitive issue between Chile and Bolivia today.
wLAko TIL Clair Cameron Petterson, the American geochemist who proposed the still-accepted age of the Earth of 4.5 billion years old, helped accelerated the phaseout of lead from all standard, consumer, automotive gas, decreasing lead level in blood of Americans by 80% by the late 1990s.
vNkB TIL that the Nation of Islam teaches that white people are a race of “Devils” created by a black scientist 6,600 years ago on a Greek island.