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TIL that scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish

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epKjJ TIL during a backlash against relaxed 1960s attitudes to drugs and weed smoking backpackers on the hippie trail in Asia, anyone with sufficiently suspect attributes would have the letters SHIT (“suspected hippie in transit”) stamped in their passports in Malaysia before being deported.
rNYww TIL that Uranus’s poles get 42 years of continuous darkness and then sunlight. This is due to the axial tilt of 97.77 degrees (Earth is 23.4 degrees)
6VQW TIL David Carradine (Kill Bill) is still appearing in films and TV even though he died in 2009
VdJ4 TIL There is a deadly mushroom called ‘Destroying Angel’. Hours after eating it the victim will experience nausea and vomiting. The following day they may experience the ‘walking ghost’ phase where they feel ok, but the damage done to their cells is irreversible and they will almost certainly perish
DQpaD TIL In 2007, investors had plans to build the tallest skyscraper in Latin America in Mexico City but had trouble with zoning. It was argued that Mexico City needs about 200,000 sq m of office space a year, or seven typical 25-floor office towers