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TIL: A boomerang will still come back to you in a zero gravity pressurised environment

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vP0wj TIL that each commercially available batch of Botox is tested for toxicity on hundreds of mice
9wgVQ TIL dummer boy Charley king was the youngest soldier to die in the American civil war. At the battle of Antietam he was wounded by a shell. He died of wounds in a field hospital near the battlefield on 20 September 1862. He was 13 years old
grdoW TIL that at the Council of Nicea in 325, a priest called Arius proposed a heretical belief so strong he got punched by St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus. Several years later, Arius died from rectal prolapse and according to legend, defecating out parts of his organs.
WK49 TIL that cannabis use is completely legal in North Korea
LK5Q TIL that the ‘falling sensation’ and jerk reflex felt before sleep may go back to our ancestors having to re-adjust themselves when sleeping in trees, so they didn’t fall out.